Security
Jimmy lived in a world dominated by multinational corporations, which kept their employees' families in privileged compounds and were separated from the outside world. Behind the walls of the compounds, people called those cities pleeblands. In People in the compounds does not “go to the cities unless they had to, and then never alone” (Atwood, 27). The security outside in the pleeblands were terrible, “there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change – the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies” (Atwood, 27), whereas life in the compounds were safe, foolproof, and controlled. Jimmy’s dad even compared the compounds as a castle and the people who live there where kings and dukes.
Security may appear to be protecting the citizens in the compound from outside terrorist, but in reality it was controlling and censoring certain ideas in their lives. CorpsSeCorps was the compound security that monitors the day-to-day life of all the citizens. When Jimmy’s mom escaped from the compound, it was their job to stop and execute her.
This is a picture of a bionic eye. It demonstrates how the government’s security knows exactly what you’re doing. And it goes through everything including mail, entertainment, and etc before showing it to their audience. This way it allows the government to control the people (the way they think, behave, and etc).
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