Comparing 1984 with a Handmaid's Tale Essay

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I liked the movie. It is nice to see everything after you read it. When we read something, we make up our own pictures/imaginations as we go and it was good to watch a reader’s imagination (the author). After watching the movie, you can rate yourself and your fantasy and if your pictures were the same as the pictures made by other. What I didn’t like in the movie and I am sure it had the same effect on the other watchers is that we don’t get to experience the pain a handmaid should be going thru. while I was reading the novel, I could imagine and almost feel everything offred is going thru because it was explained in details and because offred herself was the protagonist. But in the movie I didn’t feel like she suffered a lot. Everyday there was something. A visit by the doctor, a ceremony and so on. We really didn’t get the impression that she doesn’t have freedom and that she is suffering. We didn’t only feel that but we also felt that they are pleased with their situation. Their bright faces and the happy red that they are wearing doesn’t show their agony. Instead it shows that everything still runs the same but under more striked/harsh rules. So in a way I don’t like the movie because it doesn’t leave me with the feeling that the novel left me with and most important it doesn’t show me how a totalitarian state should be like. I would so much recommend the novel weiter. As a student I learned a lot from it. And im sure that every man and every woman at any age will learn, too. The novel give me a glance of other possibilities. In my country I thought that our regime was bad enough I never thought that it can e worse. Reading the handmais tale made me grateful of what I have and it made also see the threat. In a way I am scared now that this can be possible. And if you look closer it might be starting now. There are some men rufen that the women shouldn’t

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