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T1 A Nightmarish Tomorrow: Orwellian Methods of Social Control in Contemporany Dystopian Literature
A1 Peláez Galán, Pablo
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Orwell, George (1903-1950)- Crítica e interpretación
K1 Ciencia ficción - Historia y crítica
AB Dystopian literature is considered a branch of science fiction which writers use to portray afuturistic dark vision of the world, generally dominated by technology and a totalitarianruling government that makes use of whatever means it finds necessary to exert a completecontrol over its citizens. George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) is considered a landmark of thedystopian genre by portraying a futuristic London ruled by a totalitarian, fascist partywhose main aim is the complete control over its citizens. This paper will analyze twoexamples of contemporary dystopian literature, Philip K. Dick’s “Faith of Our Fathers”(1967) and Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta (1982-1985), to see the influence that Orwell’sdystopia played in their construction. It will focus on how these two works took Orwell’sdepiction of a totalitarian state and the different methods of control it employs to keepcitizens under complete control and submission, and how they apply them into their stories.
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/14688
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/14688
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-abr-2024