Essays about: "Huxley"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the word Huxley.
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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/EngelskaAbstract : 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
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2. Accommodating Perspectives on Religious History : A Study of Satire and Narrative Structure in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay is an analysis of Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow and how it can be read as exposing social hypocrisy and tracing social flaws through England’s religious history. The analysis uses narratology as a tool for exploring how the author can be perceived as offering a perspective on religious history that might have been controversial in his day. READ MORE
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3. A Matter of Time : Was Red Rising’s Gold Society Ripe for Revolution?
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : This C-paper looks at Pierce Brown’s book Red Rising. The first book of a two trilogy series set in adystopian future where humankind has terraformed other planets and moons. The paper explains theways in which Red Rising handles class, and classism through a Marxist lens. READ MORE
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4. Male Patriarchy and "Othering" : Brave New World from a Postcolonial and Feminist Perspective
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/EngelskaAbstract : This paper aims to show how Brave New World, a dystopia by Aldous Huxley, has strong postcolonial traces within it. Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and Gayatri Spivak's analyses of Bertha Mason, the fictional representation of the colonial female subject in nineteenth-century English literature, tie up the similarities in how the Reservation and Linda are portrayed within the book. READ MORE
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5. Examining public space transformation : A case study of rationalities and inclusiveness in public space planning in Stockholm
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : The exclusion of marginalized individuals or groups from public space through interventions as part of processes of urban transformation, and the disparity between these processes and the stated motivations behind them have been widely researched (Berney, 2013; Low, 2020; Madanipour, 2020; Mitchell, 2017). The aim of the thesis is to critically examine the disconnect between motivations and outcomes in public space planning through the theoretical perspective of a right to the city (Lefebvre, 1996), applying the idea of circulating spatial rationalities (Huxley, 2006). READ MORE
