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Visions of the future : Atwood, Bradbury, Burgess, Huxley, Orwell
Author
Yap, Chern Kai
Supervisor
Lumsden, Robert
Abstract
In a contemplation of the prescience of the authors' visionary voice, this thesis explores the descriptive narratives of Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four). The novels selected are centred on the theme of dystopias, and are inversely related to what other literary works have envisioned utopias to be. The thesis details ways in which each of these authors presents a utopias vision being distorted and perverted into an anti-utopic depiction of human society. Their respective projections for the future will be explored in an examination of primary concerns in a comparative analysis of the five texts.
Date Issued
2002
Call Number
PR830.F8 Yap
Date Submitted
2002