Comparisons Flashcards
1
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The Stepford Wives
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The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1972) is a contemporary feminist dystopia, where women are replaced by robotic models
it depicts a society filled with impossibly beautiful and subservient ‘housewives’
2
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Brave New World
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although desire and pleasure have no place in the puritanical Gilead, there is a sexual underground known as Jezebel’s and Offred and Nick engage in a passionate affair
whereas in Huxley’s Brave New World, society is characterised by boundless consumption and officially endorsed promiscuity because sex and procreation have been separated
this is the opposite of Gilead
