Utopian and dystopian fiction

The Omniscient Indifferent Narrator Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is a satirical dystopian short story. The story starts by presenting a utopian future that sounds desirable to the reader. At the beginning of the story, everybody is finally “equal”, according to the narrator, due to the amendments of the constitution. As the reader keeps reading, even from the third line of the first paragraph, the reader might start to find faults in the society and begin to feel curious about the story.…

acted on their own individualistic ideals – Everett being one to create disorder and Alice turning Everett in. On analysis, one could not fault either Everett or Alice for acting on beliefs that they both felt fervently about. The duality of this fiction makes it more impactful compared to…

deep-seated impact on society. Dystopian novels are often stories about how the main protagonist revolts against a dictatorship or totalitarianism regime. This kind of fiction story takes features and issues from the time of the novel being written and discusses them, however it does not directly describe the…

Brave New World is one of the most well-known dystopian fiction novels, perhaps falling short only of Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. Its nature, however, differs greatly from that of Orwell’s works. Unlike those dystopian novels which focus on a society in which culture is suppressed and society is lead by a strong man, Brave New World envisages a society in which people have actively forgone the creative elements of culture in the name of efficiency. Since the book was published, there is a…

In the Utopian and Dystopian Fiction book "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, one can read about how Professor Faber tells us the “necessary things” to read a book. The first necessary thing that one needs to properly read a book is the “quality of information” which informs us of how useful the data inside the books are. The second quality of “necessary things” is the “leisure to digest it”. With this quality, it tells one, that relaxation time is necessary to read. The third and final quality…

months. Winston Smith is frail, intellectual, and contemplative. He is the protagonist in which he hates the government as totalitarian. He works in Records Department at Ministry of Truth. Julia is Winston’s lover. She is dark haired and works in the Fiction Department at Ministry of Truth. She is optimistic and lives for the moment. She is a member of the Anti-Sex League yet has also slept with many members of the Party. Big Brother never appears yet is everywhere, “BIG BROTHER IS…

whatever – and fall in”’ (Pynchon 2014: 358). The ‘Word’ can only make its appearance in the almost utopian space of DeepArcher. Some…

understanding regarding the topics of economy, identification, personality, love, art, religion, community seen in these literary works and our own world, too. Brave New World is often counted as one of the classics of its genres, science-fiction and dystopian fiction. In her review of the book, Margaret Atwood compares the work to George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984, saying that “in the latter half of the 20th century, two visionary books cast their shadows over our futures.” (Atwood.) Again,…

The Handmaid’s Tale is an anti-utopian (or “dystopian”) fiction and feminist political novel written by Margaret Atwood. The novel is set in the not-too-distant future where a group of right-wing fundamentalists take over and establish the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic state of absolute control. One of the main goals of the government is to have control over reproduction, as the state’s entire structure is threatened by the crisis caused by the decrease in birth-rates. Unfortunately, the…

1984 is a great novel because not only does it depict a dystopian future but also renders that future in a believable way . Although society has clearly changed for the worse, author George Orwell shows how these conditions arose from life in the present. The propaganda machine behind all nations which constructs…