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Handmaid's Tale is a book that was later adapted into a series about a state called Gilead. In Gilead, births were a rarity, and a Christian totalitarian organization took over the country. Women called Handmaids have no rights and are forced into being state-mandated breeding machines.
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Animal Farm is a novel also written by author George Orwell. It is about farm animals realizing they are being exploited for the Farmer's profit so they decide to throw out the farmer (Mr. Jones) and then the animals govern the farm and live a more free life. However Napoleon the Pig takes power in a coup overthrowing any opposition and creates a totalitarian oligarchy where everyone follows his order, propaganda is distributed, and most of the animal production goes towards the oligarchic pigs. Animals who oppose or don't work hard enough are killed by a squad of dogs or left to suffer or taken away forever. Many people have compared Animal Farm to the rise of the Soviet Union, saying that Napoleon the Pig was representing Joseph Stalin. Orwell himself was against totalitarianism, and Animal Farm and 1984 (scroll above) are used widely as literature about totalitarian states.
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