Naslov
Dystopian Present Vs Dystopian Future of 1984 and Brave New World

Autori
Dujmović, Mauro

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk / Paul Crosthwaite - Cardiff : Cardiff University, 2009, 20-21

Skup
Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk

Mjesto i datum
Wales, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo; Cardiff, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 02.07.2009. - 03.07.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
power; ideology; society; risk; media; consumption; materialism; totalitarianism

Sažetak
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 while George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four between 1945 and 1948. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’ s anti-utopian novels share many similar features and thanks to their prophecies of the future of society, they are regarded as dystopian novels par excellence. The aim of this paper is to consider how does the mood of despair about the future of the man from the novels match with the belief in human progress and in man's capacity to create a world of justice and peace. It is an interdisciplinary approach to these two literary texts dealing with the spreading power and ideology of modern technology and the mass media. Huxley and Orwell understood the danger and influence of the mass media over people and marked this event in different ways. In Brave New World, the influence of the media over people was so corroding that citizens inadvertently used advertising sentences in their speech. Orwell adopted the “ telescreens” and drew the attention on their obsessive presence in every citizen’ s life in Oceania: there, people were obliged to listen carefully to the instructions coming out from the video. Many modern inventions have transformed the world and people as well. It is for this reason that both Huxley and Orwell felt scared about the continuous innovation of technology and its effects on human beings giving rise to a new form of totalitarianism.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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