Dystopia

About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.

Depiction of the conflict between personality and state in the novel «1984» by g. orwell

Abstract: The article «Depiction of the Conflict between Personality and State in the Novel «1984» deals with investigation of the genre peculiarities of the novel – dystopia «1984» by G. Orwell and depiction of the conflict between Personality and State. The author of the article states that the genre of dystopia novel occupies a special place not only in the English literature of the XX century, but also in the world literature. The first part of the article speaks about the formation of the dystopia genre in the world literature, which developed as an opposite to the genre of utopia. The research shows that dystopia genre was creatively implemented in the works by A. Huxley, R. Bradbury, K. Ishiguro, etc. The article states that in the novel under analysis the author touches political, social, moral and philosophical problems. And the main means of treating this issue is the system of characters creatively presented in the novel. The author of the article focuses on the analysis of the main character of the novel – Winston Smith, who becomes a person involved into a dramatic, tense conflict between a Personality and the State. G. Orwell provides the idea that under the pressure of a society any person can be ruined. Outstanding characters of the book make it interesting and exciting for a wide circle of readers. This research states that the most tragic and awful character for G. Orwell is the leader of the totalitarian state – Goldstein. The whole novel is aimed against totalitarian ideas, tending to embrace all aspects of human life in order to develop the nation of warriors and fanatics.

A Rhetorical Reading of George Orwell's 1984 : The brainwashing of Winston in the light of ethos, logos and pathos

Abstract: The aim with this essay is to cast a light upon the brainwashing carried out by the totalitarian Party in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, and induce a deeper understanding of its persuasive

Parsing the city

Abstract: WE ENCOUNTER ONE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S PROTO-DETECTIVES, THE narrator of his short story "The Man of the Crowd," as he recalls a singular urban experience that began while he was sitting in the window of a London coffee house On this occasion he was amusing himself with, alternately, poring over a newspaper and observing the "dense and continuous tides of population" streaming past his vantage point' His view of the urban throng, and especially his glimpse of one particularly fascinating city specimen, eventually prompt him to plunge into the streets of the great metropolis in pursuit of this mysterious character so as "to know more of him" His deeper, though unrecognized goal seems to be to make some sense out of the chaos of the new industrial city, with the object of his pursuit and surveillance as a kind of emblematic denizen of this unprecedented environment2 In what I assume is an unintended parallel, we first encounter Rick Deckard, the protagonist of Ridley Scott's 1982 dystopian noir-pastiche film Blade Runner, as he sits reading the newspaper and waiting for service at a curb-side "noodle bar" in a nightmarish future Los Angeles3 Like his mid-nineteenth century counterpart, he is confronted with a dense tide of motley humanity streaming by in front of him And soon he too will find himself compelled to wander the night streets of a great metropolis in the effort to resolve ambiguities that go well beyond the immediate circumstances of the case assigned to him One further parallel between these two