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This paper explains that dystopian literature, which depicts an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful repressive lives, seem to have powerful lessons for humanity that are strikingly apropos for today's world climate. The author points out that, in "1984", one of Orwell's main themes and commentaries on humanity is centered on language and how power rests with those people who control the language. The paper relates that the main theme of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" is evil and greed; whereas, real stupidity is the core of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5".

From the Paper
"One also has to note the massive inflation that has caused much of the trouble in "Snow Crash". The use of other currencies less affected by the massive inflation of the dollar in the novel certainly brings to mind the recent conversion of many European countries' currency to the Euro. These examples of greed as well as other major themes of violence, drug use, drug pushing, and conspiracy seems to be evidence of the inherent evil in humanity even these accusations are softened somewhat by Stephenson's tongue-in-cheek style."

Tags:newspeak, greed, stupidity, bomb, socio-political

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The paper shows how the technological aspects of surveillance are an important problem in George Orwell's "1984" because it defines the nature of a dystopian society that abuses its citizenry through improved microphones and ocular devices. The paper compares the dystopia of Oceania to the current legislation on technology for the American War on Terror, and argues that the freedoms of Americans are being limited by unwarranted wire taps or other forms of totalitarian surveillance.

Tags:technology, orwell, future

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The paper looks at how the primary aspects of scientific eugenics of the evolution of humankind is often questioned through the narrative of dystopia in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells. The paper discusses how both authors question the naive sense of utopian values expressed by the scientists or characters in these stories, as they challenge the sense of modernism that they confronted in the early 20th century. The paper highlights how in this capacity, they often provide some of the danger of these visions, which seek to either control or dominate human beings in a negative and governmental stifling manner.

Tags:time, travel, science

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The paper compares "1984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and shows how both novels present a frigtening look at the future. The paper describes how the stories feature mind control, fear, genetic engineering and several other tasks which in the end result in a society of individuals who can't think for themselves.

From the Paper
"George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were two of a number of mid-twentieth century futurists and science fiction writers who explored individuality, mind-control and totalitarianism. Both suggest that it is possible for a totalitarian government to completely control, or at least defeat, individual thought. In both stories the main characters are outsiders, outcasts, individuals who do not fit. In the end they are defeated, their individualism destroyed. While both authors had very different visions of the future, these visions..."

Tags:future, 1984, orwell

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The paper explains the dystopian nature of Margaret Atwood's novel, "The Handmaid's Tale." The paper discusses the protagonist and title character from her perspective. The paper also compares the resistance movement of the novel to Orwell.

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"The protagonist and title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" says that what she wants most is to know and to know whatever there is to know what's going on. Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead where there is often no balm, is immersed in a dystopian universe that Lois Feuer sees as very similar from and yet unique with respect to George Orwell's world."

Tags:Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian

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The writer of this in-depth paper focuses on assorted dystopian themed novels and the impact these works of writing have on the reader. This paper analyzes novels such as "Brave New World," "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984" all written about dystopian societies while comparing them to more upbeat novels depicting perfect utopian societies. Ray Bradbury's novel "Brave New World" describes the individuality that is stripped from its people who are forced to live brainwashed and segregated without them even knowing of it; the people of this futuristic world see it as utopia whereas the reader can clearly see it's in fact dystopia. George Orwell's "1984" presents a world to the reader where there is no chance for a utopia whereas the citizens see this world as a utopia due to telescreens, propaganda and brainwashing that leads to a society of no desires or thoughts. The writer also details the plots and characters of both dystopian and utopian themed novels as well as the motivating factors which inspired the authors' creativity.

From the Paper
"George Orwell presents a world to the reader where there is no chance for a utopia whereas the citizens see this world as a utopia due to telescreens, propaganda's and brainwashing that leads to a society of no desires or thoughts. Citizens are not allowed to have personal thoughts or feelings due to the telescreens that destroys the individual mind. Telescreens is a designs that is a two way interacting television set that the Party uses to keep people from thinking. The telescreens are monitored by a force called the Thought Police. "Thought police plugged in on any individual wire, in the assumption that every sound you made was over heard." We see how this is forced greatly on the people when Winston has to hide himself from telescreens just to write down some of his thoughts. Huge posters with big eyes reminds the people that Big Brother is watching them."

Tags:literature, literary, george, orwell, analysis, perception, society, ray, bradbury

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The paper examines Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and George Orwell's "1984", two novels that illustrate dystopian societies. The paper explains that both novels achieve the title of dystopian literature because they are working with a theme of a perfect state or government, and the powerless individual that has been conditioned to accept the status quo. The paper looks at the issues of individuality, communication and ultimate forms of control, and how both novels frighten and inspire at the same time, achieving each author's goal to warn readers of the impending doom of any great state.

From the Paper
"Dystopian literature is a tool authors utilize to make social commentary on current social and political systems by focusing primarily on flaws and outright failure. Dystopian literature is different from most fiction in that it must "confine itself to a rudimentary kind of characterization, it hardly pretends to a large accumulation of suspense" (Howe 17980). He also adds that that dystopian literature works from the premise that there is a "flaw in the perfection of the perfect" (180), it must "strain our sense of the probable while not violating our attachment of the plausible" (180), and it must also present the "nightmare of history undone" (180). Keeping this in mind, dystopian literature successfully demonstrates these common characteristics by removing the status of the individual, incorporating various forms of communication, and wielding complete and total power. Two novels that represent dystopian literature and illustrate dystopian societies are Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell's 1984."

Tags:state, individual, control, power, technology, self, conformity, freedom

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This paper reviews Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale" and discusses the dystopian and utopian themes in the book. The author summarizes the book and discusses how the dystopic elements of the novel are shown by the religious zealots who took control of the United States and prevented women from working, owning money, and eliminated freedom of choice. The author also includes excerpts of irony present in the book, especially in the utopian elements of the novel when the Handmaids come together in an idealized unity of female bonding.

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"That women are supposed to exist only as reproductive vessels is reinforced by the fact that the Handmaids are not even allowed to read, when they go marketing. The women go from shop to shop, purchasing meat and vegetables in a kind of idealized setting of a common village, talking with one another and bonding with one another in a way that is often sadly lacking in modern life. Offred cherishes her conversations with Ofglen, a fellow handmaid, and the two establish a bond of closeness because of their common acknowledgement of female oppression. Offred, uncomfortable with Moira's lesbianism and her mother's radical feminist politics during the previous regime, now begins to understand the need for women to bond with women, not necessarily as lovers, but at least as human beings."

Tags:reproductive vessels, religious movement, feminists

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This paper examines George Orwell's "1984" in an attempt to discover the author's basic insight that leads to the worldview presented in the work. The first section reviews Orwell's own reasons for writing and his comments on the political nature of his work. It briefly considers Orwell's social and personal context in which "1984" was written. The next section identifies the satire against socialism. The third section explores the specific dangers he warns society against and the views he is promoting, not only as they related to the world in late 1940s when the work was written, but also as they relate to the contemporary world. This section also discusses the heightened fear caused by the closeness of his dystopian vision to reality. The fourth section pursues the ideal world that Orwell wanted to proscribe for us as his creative vision for the book.

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"His personal health during the writing of the book was falling. Some critics believe that this lead him to write a pessimistic work, with no avenue open for hope. Fredric Warburg [3] said, "I cannot but think that this book could have been written by a man who himself, however temporarily, had lost hope, and for physical reasons which are sufficiently apparent." I do not consider this to be a significant factor in his writing of the book, and do not consider pessimism to be the main thrust of his creative impulse, which is discussed from a different perspective in this paper. The hopelessness may be viewed as a device used to make the effects of totalitarianism more vivid. Some critics have also linked some description in 1984 to Orwell's experiences at his childhood school and other times. "

Tags:brave, new, order, social, utopia

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The paper examines how both Robert Louis Stevenson in "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and Aldous Huxley in "Brave New World" develop and explore the themes of desire, pleasure, self-restraint, gratification and "humanness." The paper discusses their respective stories about human misuses, either individually or within a dystopian totalitarian society of scientific technology. The paper demonstrates how both authors imply within their novels how human existence, by its very nature, involves frustrated desire, pleasure and displeasure and the necessity, however uncomfortable and frustrating, for self-restraint in order not to hurt oneself and others.

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"Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) features, at the beginning of the story, a well-respected doctor, Dr. Jekyll, who scientifically concocts a potion that allows him to change himself, since he would like to experience feeling less human restraint than he does as the responsible and respectable Dr. Jekyll, into a hideous monster of a man, the destructive, unpredictable, and murderous Mr. Hyde. Stevenson's novel, set in Victorian England, during a time of then-unprecedented technological and scientific progress (a fact that may well have helped Stevenson to create the idea for this novel), underscores human anxieties of the sort that still exist today about the possibilities of new scientific progress (e.g., cloning; genetic engineering), in his creation of the fictional Mr. Hyde."

Tags:scientist, technology, destruction, desire, pleasure