What Are The Similarities Between The Handmaid's Tale And 1984

All through modern writing, dystopian novels remains popular among readers because of the significance to modern times which deal with the constant reminder of wars and observant governments, such as The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and 1984 by George Orwell. George Orwell stated in a letter explaining why he wrote 1984 that “there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark.” Due to people’s biases and different perspectives, exact history does not exist, so assertion one can be verified as well as assertion two since these societies hold the rights of technological advancements. The lack of one consistent recollection and the attempt to rewrite history of an event in the past causes an inaccurate representation of a circumstance. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred remembers the past as a daydream where she had freedom in how she lived her life, however, Aunt Lydia recalls history differently where women acted distastefully, “The spectacles women would make of themselves...bare backs and shoulders on the street, in public... A successful life for her was one that avoided things,” because of these differing of opinions, history cannot be exact if some women appeared floozy or but to others it implies normality (55). Along with Aunt Lydia’s account of a strange past, Winston Smith in 1984 recalls different events that occur