How does Aldous Huxley succeed to criticise BNW, although the world that is presented may appear just perfect to the reader? "Brave New World" written by the English author Aldous Huxley, born in 1894, is the portrait of an "ideal" world far in the future where society is made up of castes and ba...
It's simplest to describe a dystopia as a sort of anti-Utopia, that is, the opposite of our perfect world. Now, in our utopia, there's no war, disease, crime, and everything else that makes us upset. ... Except for in heaven (our afterlife Utopia), where god is in control, but let's not get into religion, yet. So if our Utopia is human controlled, then it seems fair that our dystopia is controlled by some other beings. ...
Time Machine by Herbert Wells Time travel. An idea that has fascinated mankind for all eternity. The shear idea of voyaging through the fabric of time is both an intriguing and exhilarating thought. Throughout time, many author's have closely predicted the future through their novels, and who...
Published in January of 1962, Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B focuses on a not so distant future in which human beings have cured disease, conquered old age, and even cheated death. In this story, Vonnegut displays his image of a dystopian society through the use of imagery, theme, and time period. In 2...
The Time Machine H.G. Wells Genre-Sciene Fiction Why I chose to do this genre: I find this genre very appealing because the writing is so imaginative and the creativity required to pull such ideas out of ones head is unfathomable. The stories are often intensely decriptive, and I can visua...
Facets of Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, also known as Raymond Douglas Spaulding, has not only published works of science fiction, but also numerous writings in drama, poetry, screenplays, detective fiction, and even musical compositions. Many of his stories have been made into movies and televis...
