In “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, there is a commitment to showing the potential of a totalitarian government to deliberately challenge the notion of the real. Maybe that’s why the book remains completely relevant even today. […]
‘The Chrysalids’, by John Wyndham, revealed that in a dystopian society, deviation was not acceptable. That’s why mutants were treated terribly. […]
There are four different dark narratives in science fiction literature that shows a society after, before, and within an apocalypse. The narrative of ‘The Chrysalids’ describes a society after an apocalypse that happened some 1000 years earlier. […]
In the book ‘The Chrysalids’, David Storm lives in a strict society where mutants have no place. He meets a girl named Sophie with extra toes on her feet. David is severely punished by his father for helping Sophie and her family escape. […]
In a dystopia, the citizens can grasp the mechanics of the society they live in, but not its underlying motives. They can understand the ‘how’ but not the ‘why’. Orwell, Arendt, and Zamyatin all try to find the answer to this ‘why’ by looking at the society through the lens of totalitarianism. […]
George Orwell explores in his writings if truth and reality are merely a social construct, often challenged and weaponized in a totalitarian society. […]
In “Herland”, it appears that the absence of masculinity becomes an absence of a referent, so that without its opposite term, femininity is just as lost as masculinity. […]
In “Herland”, three male explorers enter a women-only utopia in the jungle, and the education the men receive reveals how an all-woman society can sustain itself. […]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was writing at a time when the First Wave of Feminism was only beginning. She was one of the women who campaigned for equal voting rights. In this context, her literary works have contributed immensely to the movement. […]
Edward Bellamy’s novel “Looking Backward” is a good example of how literature can change the world. It correlates well with many issues and problems of today. […]
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