Comparing Nineteen Eighty-Four And The Handmaid's Tale

In my project I will make a comparative study between the functioning of present day society and the two futuristic dystopian novels, one is the classic by George Orwell ‘Nineteen ssEighty-four (1949)’ and other is the masterpiece by Margaret Atwood ‘The handmaid’s Tale’ (1985). The idea for this study arose, when recently the sale and the relevance of these two dystopian books resurged rapidly even after some seventy and forty years of their first publication.
Both of the novels deal with a totalitarian society, where government keeps a watch on every plane of an individual’s existence. We came across two protagonists, namely Winston smith in Nineteen Eighty-four and Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale they both are a victim of a government where

The book was about a life under totalitarian regime from a common man’s perspective. The world of 1984 runs on the basis of three slogans ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength’, the world is divided into three states, which rises from the ashes of world war II Oceania (British isles, the Americas, pacific, Australia), Eurasia ( Europe and Russia), and Eastasia ( rest of it) so now the perpetual war between these three states which anyhow holds the similar ideologies is requires to retain the society in order and peace and hence in control; that is why War is associated with peace. The only way to be free in this society is by surrendering yourself to the party and by assimilating in the party, hence proves the second slogan freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength implies, ultimately the division between the high, middle, and low class will never be attained, because the middle class will desperately wants to become high class and to achieve that middle class will pretend to work in the favor of low in order to divest high class. Following this the new middle class will emerge everything will change except the low class, the high and middle class together will make and implement the laws. But the lows that are the proletarians will be too ignorant to even

Blair; his father was a British agent who used to work in India at that point of time for British Government. Blair borne in 1903 in India moved back to Great- Britain with his parents few years later. The caliber and excellence of Blair got him invited to Join Eton and after finishing up his secondary education he decided that he’ll go and serve the imperial police, he finally ends up in the colony of Burma. These years in the colony of Burma proved to be really important in the intellectual development of Blair, in these few years in colony he made a new set of social relationships and found a sense of new social identity here he covered his journey from Blair to Orwell. The major moment of evolution comes in the life of Blair when he was confronted with the daily life and the misery in India. He got to discover the mechanics of ‘Imperialism’ how it works and most importantly how it didn’t work. Blair remarked on his these confrontations that “imperialism was an evil thing, and sooner I chucked my job and got out of it the better” (collected Essays I: 266). He even vent out that he wanted to escape ‘not merely from imperialism but from every form of man’s dominion over man. I wanted to submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants’ (qtd. In Rodden 148). Finally in 1927, arrived a moment when he was so sick