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T1 Modernist Futures: the controversy between men and gods and a brave new world. A study of opposite views of possible futures as imagined by H.G Wells and Aldous Huxley
A1 González Morago, José Miguel
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Utopia, Dystopia, Science, Future, Society, Human
K1 Distopía, Ciencia, Futuro, Sociedad, Humano.
AB At the beginning of the 20th century the world was changing drastically due to scientificdevelopment and certain events like the First World War. As a consequence many authorsbegan writing utopias and dystopias guessing how the world would change. In 1931 AldousHuxley wrote the dystopian story Brave New World as a direct response to the utopic futureimagined by H.G. Wells on his book Men Like Gods in 1923. Huxley thought Wells’ viewwas too naive and that the technological progress could be used with fatal consequences.Thus, he decided to write a book in response showing a society where the use of science ledto a nightmarish future. As a result there is a contrast in both works which show tworadically different points of view. This essay focuses on the analysis of the opposite futuresthrough the different descriptions that appear in the books.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33304
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33304
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024