Compare the author's presentations of anxieties about scientific development in the novels. by https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g en-us 2018-04-10 07:22:57 UTC 2025-10-05 10:35:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Another common fear, the unknown is a key component to the presentation of anxiety in the two texts, where scientific development is the ultimate unknown. renneoh https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250141082 - regression of Gilead: reactionary response common in political discussions
- fear of the Morningdale event, othering of clones as non-human
- presented as widespread (totalitarian/dystopian governments with masses of people under them)]]> 2018-04-10 07:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250141082 Scientific development is presented as an advancement that threatens humans; anxieties stem from the fear of being replaced or destroyed. renneoh https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250142353 - morningdale 
- commander's speech abt loss of love "nothing left for them anymore"

Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go. (effect of this on clones)

]]> 2018-04-10 07:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250142353 Mass anxiety about scientific development is presented as a tool of oppression. renneoh https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250520214 - dystopic genre
- totalitarian state
- fear of colonies/colonies used as a threat (video in the red centre)

- “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.” 
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” 
"We are fascinated, but also repelled. (...) It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this."

]]> 2018-04-11 00:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/250520214 Anxieties about scientific development are presented as common, in the way that even activists or rebels feel them to some extent. renneoh https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/251427320 - there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs.


]]> 2018-04-13 05:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/251427320 Scientific development is unchecked in the two novels, many of the anxieties surrounding it stemming from the lack of ethically regulated development. renneoh https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/251428101 - ms emily's speech: "during the war" ... nobody had time??
- thmt quotes on pollution / sterileism

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/03/plastics-poisoning-500th-anniversary-reformation-petrochemical-polymers ]]> 2018-04-13 05:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/renneoh/7wsgo3dn8j9g/wish/251428101