ANTI-UTOPIA STORIES

Anti-Utopia Stories

Anti-Utopia Stories

Introduction

As fictional dystopias are often set in a future projected virtual time and/or space involving technological innovations not accessible in genuine present truth, dystopian fiction is often classified generically as science fiction, a subgenre of speculative fiction, such as The Giver and The Hunger Games.

George Orwell - 1984

1984 by George Orwell 1984 is the startling tale of an imaginary world that can become the genuine nightmare for us in future if human race continues to deviate from path of flexibility, love, and peace. It's the persuasive biography about miserable life of Winston Smith, the somber man who lived in the ¡§Negative Utopia¡¨ that author, George Orwell, had pictured. According to preface, George Orwell was ballpoint name of Eric Blair, an Englishman that was born in Bengal in 1903 and educated at Eton. The scribe worked with Indian Imperial Police in Burma and went to Europe to profit from the dwelling by writing books and essays. This fervent political author hated totalitarianism, communism, thinkers, cants, lies, and cruelty in life and literature. He advised himself the Socialist, and he was the literary critic that had worked in Loyalist forces in Spanish municipal War. His works include Down and Out in Paris and London (1993), Burmese Days (1933), A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Keep Aspidistra Flying (1936), Homage to Catalonia (1938), and Animal Farm (1945).

The story took place in author's prophetic vision of world. It was the gloomy destiny of mankind when persons set out on the wicked course to decimate all natural privileges they were bestowed by life. In this infernal world, people were apathetic and insane due to harsh government system established: everyone's life was strictly controlled and monitored, and people were forced to use doublethink (an illogical method of thinking by twisting truth and reality to meet their needs and be in harmony with government). Many of these robot-like persons in imaginary world pursued values Ingosaic that were basically comprised of ignorance, totalitarianism, conflicts, corruption, and insanity; for example, if government said that conflict is calm or very dark is white then people need to become deceitful to rotate reasoning and make themselves accept as true whatever government said was true. The rulers believed that their cultures and civilizations could survive under situation of hatred and sufferings; thus, they imposed values of Ingosaic (doublethink) on their people and supported diverse organizations, and encouraged conflicts to double-check their ultimate dominance (Donawerth, 2003).

Winston Smith was the typical middle-aged man that lived in bizarre world of abhorrence, wars, and ignorance. As an able clerical assistant, he worked in the large government department construction which administered with revising and altering notes of publications, publications, and other publications that comprised records of history. He lived under the totalitarian government that suppressed its people's actions and thoughts: Winston edited records and writings under command of government officials to make citizens forget past and forget present reality because government wanted its citizens to have strong faith and ...