Essays about: "Dystopian Fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Dystopian Fiction.

  1. 1. Nature as an uncontrolled space in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World'

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jonna Hugsén; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper suggests that dystopian fiction should receive more attention within the environmental advocacy space. Despite the genre’s ability to provoke the reader, it is rarely interpreted in an environmental context. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Relation Between High-Technology, Human Identity, the Body, and the Dystopian Future Society of Neuromancer

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Bardia Naghinejad Kashani; [2023]
    Keywords : Cyberpunk; Neuromancer; Identity; Technology; Science Fiction; William Gibson; Society; Body; Literature;

    Abstract : We live in a world where not only humans but also any object around us is believed to have agency. A shifting relationship exists between everything, specifically between humans and technology. However, the relationship between humans and technology has become much more complicated in the world of Neuromancer. READ MORE

  4. 3. Government and Power in Young Adult Dystopias

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Persson; [2022]
    Keywords : literature; young adult literature; YA; dystopian fiction; dystopia; dystopias; dystopian literature; politics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Dystopian fiction first appeared as a literary genre in the 1870s and has since been known to conduct social criticism of the real world in a futuristic, fictive form. As it has evolved during the 20th century it has grown into a widely researched topic. READ MORE

  5. 4. Fiction to Face Fact : A Critical Reading of Frank Herbert’s The White Plague on the Premise of a Pedagogy of Discomfort

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Kristin Hammel; [2021]
    Keywords : The White Plague; Pedagogy of Discomfort; Pandemic; Dystopian Fiction; Critical Reading;

    Abstract : The following essay explores the connection between pandemic dystopian fiction and a pedagogy of discomfort through a critical reading of The White Plague by Frank Herbert. It is advocated in this essay that a critical reading of the novel can give rise to uncomfortable topics related to living in a pandemic reality, which in turn can be incorporated in an ESL setting to encourage critical inquiry and action. READ MORE

  6. 5. Dreams of Democracy within Extreme Dystopias : A Study of the Imperium of Man

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Patrick Sundkvist; [2021]
    Keywords : Warhammer: 40000; dystopia; literature; authoritarianism; science-fiction; violence; police; leadership; hierarchy; government; law; punishment; Warhammer: 40000; dystopi; litteratur; auktoritär; science-fiction; våld; polis; ledarskap; hierarki; regering; lag; straff;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyse several of the extreme dystopian elements found in the Warhammer: 40000 megatext and reveal how these elements display critique towards authoritarian policies and philosophy. I opted for a close reading of several texts and analysed several characters’ relationship to the galactic empire known as the Imperium of Man and found themes of suppression of thought, self-existential crises and wishes for freedom. READ MORE