 Quest for the Impossible: Conformity and Sameness in Two Science Fiction Dystopias: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993)Radwan Gabr El–Sobky ()
No 11, Proceedings of Harvard Square Symposium, The Phenomenon of Migration, August 22-23, 2016 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Abstract: This paper is a comparative study of the quest for the impossible: conformity and sameness in two science fiction dystopias: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Britain in 1932) and Lois Lowry’s The Giver (America in 1993). It is an attempt to demonstrate the two novelists’ ideologies of the quest for perfection through achieving conformity and sameness in two dystopian societies; such a quest is a quest for the impossible. The methodology of this study is based mainly on the concept of dystopian science fiction and on the characteristics of the dystopian society depicted in science fiction literature that are stated in M. Keith Booker’s Dystopian Literature: a Theory and Research Guide (1994), and in M. Keith Booker’s and Anne–Marie Thomas’ “Dystopian Science Fiction†in The Science fiction Handbook (2009). Keywords: utopia; dystopia; conformity; sameness; Aldous Huxley; Lois Lowry. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Conference proceedings The Phenomenon of Migration, 22-23 August 2016, pages 150-192 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:smo:mpaper:11 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Proceedings of Harvard Square Symposium, The Phenomenon of Migration, August 22-23, 2016 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies |
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