... censorship. Fahrenheit 451 is a clear reaction to the McCarthy era in which it was written; the near future book burning society is a logical projection of the world of 1950's middle class America. A key theme of dystopia has always been oppression and rebellion. The oppressors are almost always much more powerful than the rebels. Consequently, dystopian tales often become studies in ... their opposite, the feminist anti-utopia or dystopia. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) women are enslaved to men, either as decorative spouses or as simple breeding machines. The feminist...

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