The Importance Of Sexualism In The Handmaid's Tale

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A Warning: To Not Be A Robotic World Humanity is defined by love, emotions, and sex. The society in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood really restricts women from the act of sex for pleasure/emotional connection. The society in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro restricts intimacy, and while sex is allowed, it is frowned upon. The governments in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro both take advantage of women’s bodies and communicate negative feelings about sex. These books act as a warning against sex, emotion, and intimacy, becoming robotic in our world. The society in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood hugely restricts the act of sex. In addition, Gilead restricts emotional intimacy. …show more content…

In Never Let Me Go, the community in Hailsham is a society within a society because the people are clones. Their population does not truly thrive and prosper because the people are limited to being clones, which makes them restricted to not fully being able to have sex for pleasure, emotion, and intimacy. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the people rebel. Oftentimes, in a real world society, people rebel, which causes the society to crumble. The biggest difference between the two books is that in Never Let Me Go sex is talked about as being beautiful and being a physical need, yet, it is also seen in a negative light. On the other hand, in The Handmaid’s Tale the act of sex for the Handmaids is shown as being only about reproduction and women’s bodies are hugely taken advantage of. The largest similarity seen throughout these books is that the act of sex with love, emotion, and intimacy is restricted. Sex is not about pleasure in both societies. Both these books give a warning to our society about sex, emotion, pleasure, and intimacy becoming robotic in our world. We should make an effort to look out for this happening in our own world. By looking out for sex becoming robotic in our world, we can stop it before it even happens. Since both of these dystopian societies deal with the fact that sex is not about pleasure/love, they give our society today a warning that sadly, if we don’t pay attention, our society could end up becoming robotic in the act of sex, emotion, intimacy and pleasure. It is our responsibility to make sure that every action we take in this world is filled with emotion and intimacy, so that our society does not crumble without the things that really make up most of our humanity. Without emotions, intimacy, and having sex for pleasure, no world truly can thrive and prosper because the act of sex for pleasure,

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