Essay On Handmaid’s Tale – Narratives That Shape Our World

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Narratives are crucial to shaping our world as they form outlets of both creative and sociopolitical expression. Reconceptualising narratives allow for texts to update themselves to modern contexts and situations. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men are two texts that effectively explore how the reimagination and reconceptualisation of narratives can provide meaningful insights to the current society by warning readers about the risks of societal control and dehumanisation that could become a potential reality. Both composers have skillfully examined dystopian worlds that critique injustices and inequalities corresponding to their time period, this is to provoke thought and shine light on controversial topics for encouraging change and improvement in the future. Both composers have reconceptualised and reimagined events in their cultural period and have applied it successfully to their speculative narratives to confront the audience with current problems to signify the overarching notion that present actions shape the narrative of our future world. Thus, the quote ‘’Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,’’ validates how HMT and COM has efficiently challenged readers by revealing disturbing truths and raising questions about human nature through illustrating dystopian worlds of infertility, abuse of authority, gender segregation & power dynamics and how each factor has impacted human interaction.