The novelThe School for Good Mothersbegins with Frida Liu–a single working mother who is at her wit’s end–having a bad day that culminates in her losing her daughter to protective services. As her punishment she will be part of a new program to rehabilitate bad moms and if she is s...
Why is Animal Farm a dystopian novel? Animal Farm is a dystopian text becauseit portrays a world where the characters seek to have a perfect or utopian society, but their plight results in a world that is worse than the world they changed. What makes a book dystopian? Dystopias aresocieties...
George Orwell's famous dystopian novelAnimal Farmis an allegory for the events that came before the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century. The epilogue, presented as Chapter X,elaborates on what happened several years later to the animals that supported the revolution: Years passed. The s...
statue-filled labyrinth that periodically floods to dangerous levels. Let’s be honest, not much besides the human insight is realistic in this novel (unless you happen to holiday in similar dangerous labyrinths). But the outlandish premise makes the perfect playground for Clarke to explore themes...
George Orwell’sAnimal Farmis one of the most famous allegories of all time—a satirical, dystopian political and historical allegory for the Russian revolution that began in 1917. This novel uses farm animals to symbolize historical figures from this time period: Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, and ...
a satisfying definition of Gothic which is widely agreed upon. There are even arguments about whether “horror” should be considered a necessary part of it, or whether horror is enough to call something “Gothic”. (Why not just call it horror? What special sauce makes it also “Gothic”?
THIRTY DECIBELS is a young adult dystopian novel about a girl who makes herself a Whisperer. She can’t laugh, cry, argue, or speak louder than 30 decibels. The Whisper Rules have kept the world quiet since riots called The Great Scream killed half the world. But as Ava looks closely, ...
m an out and proud populist who will be fully satisfied by producing a rippingly good commercial bestseller that makes people happy. I’m simply not interested in exploring deep agendas, stretching the boundaries of literary form or writing a book which, in Kafka’s terms, should wound or ...
Ready Player Oneis a novel — not actually a metaverse — that was adapted into a movie. However, it gives great insight on what a near-future with totally immersive VR may look like. And though the sci-fi source material has a dystopian bent on VR worlds, that’s not necessarily our...
The selection of an image showing a giant screen view of Donald Trump pulls out of our subconscious every thing we have ever heard concerning the phrase, “Big Brother is Watching You,” from George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, and in fact, the image chosen for the NYT’s Facebook ...