Watching Worlds: Surveillance and Identity in 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale

Author(s)	Mrs Asma Parveen
Country	India
Abstract	Surveillance is shown as a part of how societies are controlled in dystopian narratives. It marks how people behave and who they are as person. This research examines how surveillance and identity are portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. This paper compares these two books to see how governments with control manipulate people’s language, memories, gender, and bodies to make them obey. The exemplification of surveillance in these works helps us understand its effects on people. Surveillance is a part of dystopian literature, and it continues to affect our thinking about individuality and domination.
Keywords	Surveillance, domination, identity, dystopian literature, totalitarian.
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-06-01
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.79821

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