Negotiating progress and happiness in brave new world and the handmaid's tale.

• Main Author: Yuen, Melissa Si Wei.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52207
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dilip Soman and Mengze Shi state that progress amplifies an individual’s level of physical and mental health (cited in Brunstein 1993). An improvement in an individual’s life, as we see here, is directly related to the notion of a greater well-being, and by extension, happiness. The presentation of...