Margaret Atwood introduces the dilemma of "freedom from" and "freedom to” in her article, “We Are Double-Plus Unfree.” Atwood is a noted novelist of dystopia. In her past, she’s morphed her literary works into a social examination of deception and corporate control. The author wrote this piece as a reaction to her horror of finding freedom curtailing, and the general public’s vulnerability to their so-called protectors. Her issue with this double-sided freedom is greatly magnified by her linguistic and sociological inquisition. She asks rhetorical and ethical-probing questions. In this article, freedom is used to manipulate one’s rights and actions. What one is able and allowed to do, and what one is not able and allowed to do, is questioned. "Freedom from" groped America into a population of…show more content… Difficulties arise when one cannot understand freedom because they do not understand what is preventing their freedom. Atwood interprets these restrictions, and retorts with, “Our governments now treat us like cattle – governed by fear, we have surrendered too many of our hard-won freedoms. It’s time to recapture the territory we’ve ceded” (n.pag.). To address this dilemma, Atwood has suggested that one must become free of their own unfettered perception. Furthermore, one must be free of tracked technology and social media. The power holders wield the weapon of fear. This is fear from others and fear from oneself. The public’s notion of “living off the map” is synonymous with being a suspicious and/or a paranoid character. One takes part in the social structure of their town when he or she purchases goods, or when they contribute and abide to the legal system or law enforcement. Atwood goes back in time to find that people felt more free when they weren’t an integral part of society. Modern culture created jobs from the need to rely on
