One of the central themes in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is the power of the gaze. Set in a futuristic and totalitarian society, the two novels demonstrate how the gaze, the notion of seeing and being seen, alternately works as a method of empowering and disempowering. The thesis uses Michel Foucault’s book Discipline ...