week 4 post2

in the majority of the science fiction we have read the human race seems to regress instead of making progress. In V for Vendetta the we have lost the freedom that people have fought centuries to get. we can no longer enjoy the arts, whether it be books, tv, movies or artwork. In Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale the women a sacred but they have lost all of their rights, it is no better than in the early 1900s when women were nothing more than birthing vessels that also took care of the house. In the Asimov story we have fallen back into slavery but it is no longer humans that are enslaved. the robots are shown to have thoughts and feelings and we use them as slaves, just the same as there were slaves in the south in the 1800s. science fiction is offering us a picture of a very bleak future filled with fear and injustice. we can only hope take note of these stories and make sure nothing like this really happens to us.