... make a protagonist female without bringing with it the implication of a feminist agenda. The energy that went into such feminist utopias as Joanna Russ" The Female Man (1975) and Sally Gearhart's The Wanderground (1980) also inspired their opposite, the feminist anti-utopia or dystopia. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) women are enslaved to men, either ... operating on a primal aesthetic. In a traditional dystopian tale, the protagonist would have been attracted to this lost way of life; Montag or Winston Smith would not have reflooded Leicester Square, instead fighting d...

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... as they do so, previous benevolent hopes and dreams adjust to the malignant and treacherous human nature. Works of literatures such as A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Animal Farm by George Orwell illustrate this pattern of corruption. In A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is one of the most vivid portrayals of power corruption. At first, she is a victim of absolute power in pre-revolutionary France. She has been exposed to cruelty ... exercised by the aristocracy. As a young girl, Madame Defarge witnesses torture and then the eventual death of her family ... ...

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