Context / News Story The Handmaid’s Tale Brave New World Nineteen Eighty-Four
Disputing the election “It was after the catastrophe, when “There was something called “The slightly more favoured
with Trump they shot the President and democracy. As though men were workers whom we call ‘the proles’
machine-gunned Congress and the more than physico-chemically are only intermittently conscious of
army declared a state of emergency. equal… Government’s an affair of the war. When it is necessary they
They blamed it on the Islamic sitting, not hitting, you rule with the can be prodded into frenzies of fear
fanatics, at the time.” (pp.178-9) brains and the buttocks, never with and hatred, but when left to
the fists… the Controllers realised themselves they are capable of
Revolution is achieved through that force was no good.” (pp.40-3) forgetting for long periods…”
force, namely, attacking and wiping (p.245)
out the central government, in the By attempting to overrule the
way that the MAGA protestors ballots, Trump undermined Through propaganda, the Party
attempted to in January 2021. Many democracy, which appears, in BNW, succeed in creating an ordinarily
on the Right attempted to blame the to be the beginning of the dystopian docile but potentially inflammatory
violence on rival Antifa activists. World State. The attempted ‘coup’ base of supporters, who can be
on the capital was unsuccessful, controlled to commit violent acts,
proving Huxley’s point. much like MAGA supporters.
MeToo ‘no man shout obscenities at us, ‘everyone belongs to everyone else’ 'the Party was even inclined to
speaks to us, touches us’ encourage prostitution, as an outlet
‘Wonderfully pneumatic, I'm for for instincts which could not be
‘her speeches were about… how surprised you haven't had her’ altogether suppressed’
women should stay at home… she
has become speechless’ 'He disliked nearly all women’
‘there’s no such thing as a sterile ‘he would ravish her... and cut her
man anymore’ throat at the moment of climax’
‘as if I’m a piece of furniture’ ‘he hated her because she was
young and pretty and sexless…
Disputing the election “It was after the catastrophe, when “There was something called “The slightly more favoured
with Trump they shot the President and democracy. As though men were workers whom we call ‘the proles’
machine-gunned Congress and the more than physico-chemically are only intermittently conscious of
army declared a state of emergency. equal… Government’s an affair of the war. When it is necessary they
They blamed it on the Islamic sitting, not hitting, you rule with the can be prodded into frenzies of fear
fanatics, at the time.” (pp.178-9) brains and the buttocks, never with and hatred, but when left to
the fists… the Controllers realised themselves they are capable of
Revolution is achieved through that force was no good.” (pp.40-3) forgetting for long periods…”
force, namely, attacking and wiping (p.245)
out the central government, in the By attempting to overrule the
way that the MAGA protestors ballots, Trump undermined Through propaganda, the Party
attempted to in January 2021. Many democracy, which appears, in BNW, succeed in creating an ordinarily
on the Right attempted to blame the to be the beginning of the dystopian docile but potentially inflammatory
violence on rival Antifa activists. World State. The attempted ‘coup’ base of supporters, who can be
on the capital was unsuccessful, controlled to commit violent acts,
proving Huxley’s point. much like MAGA supporters.
MeToo ‘no man shout obscenities at us, ‘everyone belongs to everyone else’ 'the Party was even inclined to
speaks to us, touches us’ encourage prostitution, as an outlet
‘Wonderfully pneumatic, I'm for for instincts which could not be
‘her speeches were about… how surprised you haven't had her’ altogether suppressed’
women should stay at home… she
has become speechless’ 'He disliked nearly all women’
‘there’s no such thing as a sterile ‘he would ravish her... and cut her
man anymore’ throat at the moment of climax’
‘as if I’m a piece of furniture’ ‘he hated her because she was
young and pretty and sexless…
