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Women in dystopian fiction

Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Feminist analysis of the dystopian novels of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell usually focuses on the depiction of the sexually attractive young woman as an object of desire for the male protagonist. Sarah McLoughlin instead considers how the older female characters are presented

OCR: Paper 2 Comparative and contextual study: Dystopia, set texts

In 2013, Margaret Atwood explained the ways in which earlier dystopian novels, particularly Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published 1949), inspired her to write The Handmaid’s Tale (first published 1985):

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