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frightening picture of the future
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• Atwoods totalitarian society is a theocracy, inspired by the rise of the Religious Right and Jerry Falwell so called ‘moral majority’ in 1980s america
• Orwell’s novel was written post WW2 and was inspired by Nazi and Stalins Russia (as with Koestlers ‘Darkness at Noon’
• both writers act as a warning in order to prevent not predict the future as argued by Bradbury
