The dystopian novel inglese, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica The dystopian novel inglese e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The dystopian novel For most of the 19th-century writers and thinkers, utopia was a thing of the future, the culmination of the forces of historical evolution, prepared by the most powerful and progressive tendencies of modern times: democracy, science and socialism. The renewal of utopia also stimulated its counter- force: anti-utopia/dystopia.As utopia concentred on the positive, so dystopia painted the most negative, the blackest picture possible of the present and the future to come. Utopia - it concentrated on the positive. -it dedicates the techniques of literary imagination to the cause of modern ideas of science and socialism. -it invented all social orders which were perfect in the moral sense. -it is considered as ideal in the sense of the best possible. -The expected responses to what is experienced are delight. -the reader is invited to live the life of a society based on certain principles. Dystopia -it gives the most negative, the blackest picture possible of the present and the future to come. - it dedicates the techniques of literary imagination against modernity. - here the perfection of some modern systems or ideas in the social science is dreadful (terrible). - it represents the victory or tyranny of the idea. - The expected responses to what is experienced are horror. - the reader is invited to live the life of a society based on certain principles.