Abstract

DYSTOPIC VISIONS; A CRITICAL STUDY IN SELECTED FICTION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY GEORGE ORWELL AND WILLIAM GOLDING

A.Vasantha Kumari

Volume: 4 Issue: 3 2014

Abstract:

This study in critical terms shows the vision of the future which is anti- utopian fiction or dystopia. Almost since the middle of the nineteenth century life in the western world had been undergoing a kind of rapid transformation it had never known in earlier ages. A radical change in human psyche was on essential pre-requisite of man's dream of a better world coming true. This work also demonstrates how the authors optimism in the face of the tragic historical event in the post-revolutionary worlds, gradually transformed into disillusionment that characterizes the works of dystopian writers such as Orwell and Huxley. The idea of utopia has always been a response to the current and contemporary world. It is the way of dealing in the imagination with the problems of the present although it may be formulated as solutions to the fundamental perennial problems of man and society.

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