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THE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
MASTER’S THESIS=
THE LUST FOR ABSOLUTE=
POWER
IN DARK UTOPIAS:
NINETEEN
EIGHTY-FOUR, BRAVE NEW WORLD, AND=
WE
THESIS ADVISOR:
PROF. DR MUHAMMED BAK=
ARI
MUSTAFA MURAT KASAR
PAGE OF APPROVAL
THE LUST FOR ABSOLUTE POWER IN DARK UTOPIAS:
1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD=
, AND WE
MUSTAFA MURAT KASAR
APPROVED BY:
1. PROF. DR. MUHAMMET BAKARI:.....................................=
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( Thesis Supervisor)
2. Asst. Prof. Dr. Belgin
Bellisan:............................................................
3. Asst. Prof. Dr. Bülent Aras:
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DATE OF APPROVAL: Se=
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Dedicated to my family, former teachers at
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and present ones at
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my thesis
supervisor Prof. Dr. Muhammed Bakari
for his patience, invaluable suggestions, and encouragement
throughout the MA studies wi=
thout
whose aid I could not have finished the project on time. I owe also much to Dr. Metin Bo=
351;nak
opening for me new horizons =
on academic disciplines such as language, literature and cinema. =
I am
further thankful to my lecturers,
colleagues, and students at
ABSTRACT
=
Human
beings have longed for better life conditions and bliss throughout their l=
ive
spans. Some writers have reflected these positive aspirations in their wor=
ks
which form ‘utopian ge=
nre
’. Some however have written about dark and nightmarish books which
belong to ‘dystopian genre ’.
=
The Western World has contributed =
to both
genres with numerous works. This thesis will try to juxtapose three dystop=
ian
books- Nineteen Eighty- Four( =
by
George Orwell), Brave New World( by Aldous Huxley) and =
We( by Yevgeny Zamyatin) respecti=
vely-
with the criteria of how rulers try to control power and manipulate large masses=
.
=
In
the first part, a general information on utopias and dystopias is presented
with a comprehensive outlook to past and present. In addition, there were ideals in the past whi=
ch become
reality in our times. These will be evaluated within the
framework of today’s conditions.
=
The
second part will examine one=
of the
perfect examples of dystopian literature, Nineteen
Eighty- Four, in respect to following themes: social segregation,
surveillance, manipulation, alteration of reality, totalitarian methods, a=
nd
Goldstein’s arguments. It will also benefit from other scholars
interested in Orwell’s fiction.
=
The
third part will deal with Al=
dous
Huxley’s brilliant book, Bra=
ve New
World, which is a satire of
“ pleasure society”. It will also assess the validity
of Huxley’s arguments =
about
an impending social order by
looking at social life, sexuality, family, propaganda, science, planned
society, economy and individual differences.
=
The
last part will elaborate on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We which was a warning
to humanity about revolutions seen in world countries, and stagnation of human administratio=
ns.
This part further analyses We =
in the
light of science, sex life, vigilance, language, literature, music, individuality, past, revolution a=
nd
change. Moreover, it will pr=
esent a
thorough assessment of the predicaments of our contem=
porary
world as well as predictions
about the destiny of humanity.
Human
history is a witness of all =
types
of administrations- from leftwing to right-wing and from democracy to
dictatorship- which have promised
better life conditions to the layers of any society. This thesis will try to analyze h=
uman
governments with the themes of segregation, surveillance, propaganda,
totalitarianism, and manipulation of large masses. Moreover, it will try to find
similarities between what the fictional works say and how they are in actu=
al
life. However the project does not intend to deal with the details of poli=
tics
like a Political Science study. There are only some overlapping themes; it=
may
benefit from some eminent scholars working in the field, at a superficial
level, for the sake of diversity. In addition, the thesis restricts itself=
with
the lives of people in
Nineteen Eighty- Four, Brave New W=
orld and We because people may lead diffe=
rent
lives in different countries though the three masterpieces have universal
qualities.
=
Human
imagination since genesis has not ceased to create novel, ideal societies =
in
which the inhabitants lead happy and content lives. These writings about fictional co=
untries
constitute a genre, ‘ utopian literature ’, and take the name of ‘
utopia’. Utopia can be
defined as the class of fiction which represents a political state( in ter=
ms of
justice, power of defence, education policy, the moral of citizens and the=
way
of life. . . etc.). A great example is Plato’s Republic. Beginn=
ing
with Thomas More, utopias =
8220;
represent their ideal place under fiction of a distant country reached by =
some
venture some travellers”( Abrams 177). In an influential study, Karl
Malheim however considers utopia precisely as a “ complex of energies
that work for change in society, as opposed to ideology which considers
(following the Marxist tradition of ideology as false consciousness) as
the complex of energies acting to preserve and support the
existing order of thingsR=
21;(
Cited in Booker 3). Moreover=
, Nell Eurich,
the author of a brilliant work (Sc=
ience
in Utopia), sees utopia as man’s dreams of a better world( Cited=
in
=
After
his significant work Utopia, Thomas
More became the father of ut=
opian
literature. He studied penology, religious pluralism, family practices,
divorce, euthanasia, women’s rights, government- controlled educatio=
n, a
natural life of joy/pleasure, healthy physical environment, politics as
well-being and happiness, curtailment of&=
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private property, correlation of classical and Christian virtue wit=
hin a
single moral perspective, and
numerous other topics( Cousins and Grace 122). Meanwhile there were
other authors, after Thomas =
More,
who penned utopian works. Fr=
ancis
Bacon( New Atlantis), James
Harrington( The Commonwealth of Oceana)(1656), Tommaso
Companella( The City of Sun)( 1643), William Harris( News from Nowhere), and Edward B=
ellamy(
Looking Backward)( 1888) are some of them which have hitherto received=
increasing appreciation.
I.3. Definition of Dystopia
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Dystopias
are negations of utopias in which people lead dehumanized lives in hypothetical nightmarish countries. The term dystopia emerged in the
beginning of the 20th century- especially after World War I which devastat=
ed
all positive beliefs about t=
he
‘machine age’, which disillusioned people about the hope of a happy society, and which encouraged some authors=
to
write warnings to humanity. These opuses comprise a new genre- ‘
dystopian literature’. Apart from World War I, socialist utopia in
=
Dystopias pose some common points one of wh=
ich is
the theme of ‘scapegoat
’. For example, the bourgeouis people in Europe and
=
Furthermore, dystopian writers owe much to Tho=
mas
More. The works of such writers as William Morris, Samuel Butler, H.G Well=
s,
Aldous Huxley, Eugene( or Yevgeny) Zamyatin, George Orwell and others exhibit =
a clear
indebtedness to More who was, says Richard Gerber( 1973), “ the first
significant writer to transform the non-existent ideal country from an object of naive mythical belief into the
instrument of sophisticated
rationalistic hypothesis( 9)”( Cited in Booker 124).
=
Among
dystopian genre, three of them- Nineteen Eighty- Four( George Orw=
ell), Brave New World( Aldous Huxley), =
We( Yevgeny Zamyatin)- are
milestones which this thesis=
will
try to analyze, interpret and
comment. They have obvious similarities such as=
the
abuse of science, the suppre=
ssion
of individuality, regimentat=
ion of
society and life, propaganda, manipulation of language. Perhaps the three
writers see these problems i=
n their
societies and want to spread their solutions to=
them.
Dragan Klaic, the noted critic on utopia-dystopian genre, the writer of an
eloquent book The Plot of the Futu=
re:
Utopia and Dystopia in Modern =
Drama,
analyses the three books as follows:
Among negative utopias, anti-utopias, counterutopias, or
cacotopias, works such as Zamiatin’s We,
Huxley’s Brave New World=
and
Orwell’s 1984 stand out =
as
markers of prevailing dystopian temper,&n=
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as creations that established
a new paradigm. Their expectation of the future is uneasy, gloomy, =
and
fearful. They are satires of the present, predictive satires of the
pitfalls of so-called progress, and, more generally, satires of u=
topian
ambition itself. Much of the
literature probes the issues
of the future conclud=
es with
a negative report, phrased as a warning or postscript to a civilization soon to come to its end.( 69)
THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST IN MY MA THESIS. THIS =
IS AN EXERPT
FROM THE ORIGINAL THESIS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MURATHOCA.COM OR EMAIL ME AT
GOOD LUCK IN YOUR RESEARCH!
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