MIRRORING DYSTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAN MIRRORS IN PATRICK NESS’ MORE THAN THIS

Alexandra Mărginean ()
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Alexandra Mărginean: Romanian-American University, Bucharest

Romanian Economic Business Review, 2016, vol. 11, issue 4.1, 107-118

Abstract: This paper begins with a presentation of fictional facts and a few elements of dystopia, namely its geography, mechanism and vocabulary. From these unpretentious, even simplistic rudiments, we demonstrate how a complex meaning can be weaved, through mirrors and composite symbols. The second part of the analysis focuses on these, examining their functions and role: Picasso’s painting Guernica, the prison, the coffin-like chambers, drowning, the characters, and books and reading. The culmination of this scrutiny is the concept of “more”, revealed as a skeleton key to the novel. We show it to bear, as a symbol, various facets, impacting the individual and general planes, the movements of giving and receiving as basic interaction coping strategies in life (with their multiple aspects), ending up as a nutshell mirror for the human existence itself. The conclusions sum up the results of the exploration of More than This, stating again its complexity despite its unsophisticated plot.

Keywords: identity; dystopia; mise-en-abyme; virtual reality; double (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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