Comparison of individual, society and state facts in Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

This study is about to analyze and compare the novels named Swastika Night, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments which are considered as a feminist dystopia genre. This analysis and comparison is made in relation to the impacts of individual, society and state phenomenons on the degradation of men and women. The aim of this study is to embody the degradation of men and women in individual, social and political domains by comparing these impacts. In terms of research methodology, discourse analysis and comparison are used. In this context, the study consists of three sections. In the first section, the situation of men and women are discussed from feminist perspective regarding the individual, society and state phenomena. In the second section, taking the same phenomenon into consideration, novels are compared and discourse analysis is made. In the third and last section similar impacts of these phenomenons in particular novels are compared about to degradation of men and women in novels. In this study demonstrates that establishment of degradation is made through mind, body, idea, use of language, examples of public and private fields, religion, education, property and naming/anonymisation.