Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: a comparative study of satire in their novels

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 29-4934-29-4934
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley

O OVO DA SERPENTE: LITERATURA DISTÓPICA E A GENEALOGIA DO FASCISMO (1905-1914)

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelton Bruno Sabatke
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Jack London ◽  
Aldous Huxley

Em 1940, o escritor George Orwell publicou no jornal Tribune de Londres um artigo intitulado Prophecies of Fascism [Profecias do Fascismo] que continha revisões bibliográficas de romances distópicos publicados anos antes por Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Jack London e, pelo hoje menos ilustre, Ernest Bramah. Apesar de suas diferenças e peculiaridades, todas possuíam em comum certa “pretensão premonitória”, cujos méritos foram reconhecidos por Orwell, especialmente, à medida que a marcha do fascismo tornava-se cada vez mais evidente e ameaçadora na Europa. Dentre as obras analisadas, Orwell dedica especial atenção a The Iron Heel [O Tacão de Ferro], de London. De acordo com ele, o que faz o livro de London parecer mais preciso do que os demais é o fato de o autor possuir o que Orwell intitulou “centelha fascista”.

scholarly journals Антиутопические произведения Евгения Замятина и Василя Гигевича: к проблеме сходства и различий

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Anna Alsztyniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Captivity

The article analyses Zamyatin’s novel We (1921) and Hihiewicz’s story Martian Journey (1990). Zamyatin is considered to be the father of the anti-utopian genre, and We became a source of inspiration for many writers, including George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Hihiewicz, in his works, repeatedly portrayed the society of the future, completely subordinated to the system of state power. Similar issues and kinds of narration are the main features that link both analysed works. However, the transformation of Zamyatin’s protagonist is only temporary, as a consequence of which he returns to the initial situation, to the life absolutely subordinated to the state power. On the other hand, Hihiewicz’s protagonists solve existential problems by choosing between life in captivity and death.

scholarly journals Turning Romanticism on its Head: The Peripheral Symbolic Geography of Aldous Huxley and Ira Levin

Linguaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Niculae Liviu Gheran
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Symbolic Geography ◽  
Brave New World

Within the present paper, I aim to discuss how Aldous Huxley and Ira Levin have employed the peripheral symbolic geography of their two works (Brave New World and This Perfect Day) to articulate their debate between different sets of social values. Unlike other authors of negative utopias such as George Orwell or Yevgeny Zamyatin, neither Huxley nor Levin idealized pre-modern values. In order to highlight how the two articulated their views with the help of symbolic geography, I will also make use of Michel Foucault’s theoretical concepts of heterotopias, heterochrony as well as the ideas developed by the critics Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre in their seminal work Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity. My purpose is thus firstly to point out how and why Huxley and Levin divided the symbolic geography of their works in two parts as well as how they employed the Romantic critique of modernity. Secondly, I aim to show how despite using this analytical tool, they also employed symbolic geography with the purpose of turning the critique on its head, thus unveiling both its strong points as well as its shortcomings.

scholarly journals Pós-verdade e Distopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 673-695
Author(s):  
Darío Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Donald Trump

Na nossa sociedade pós-moderna, um novo conceito surgiu com força: o de pós-verdade. Segundo o Dicionário Oxford, post-truth é um adjetivo que qualifica circunstâncias que denotam que os factos objetivos têm muito menos influência na formação da opinião pública do que os apelos à emoção e às crenças pessoais. Não parece plausível que Donald Trump tenha sido leitor de filósofos como Jacques Derrida ou Michel Foucault. É, contudo, evidente a ligação entre a pós-verdade e um clima de pensamento pós-moderno por eles propiciado. À parte os embustes de Trump e dos Brexiters, não deixa de denunciar-se a intensificação de campanhas desinfomativas noutros países como a Rússia, Hungria ou Turquia. E em Espanha, olhe-se para o chamado processo em Catalunha. O género romanesco das distopias conta já com um corpus considerável. Este assunto da pós-verdade encontra a sua primeira fundamentação distópica no romance 1984 de George Orwell, publicado em 1949, embora a primeira obra da série tenha sido Nós de Evgueni Zamiatin, de 1924. Entre ambas as distopias, Aldous Huxley tinha publicado Admirável Mundo Novo, de 1932, cujo título, tomado de Shakespeare, sugere uma tirania aparentemente amável. Porém, nela funciona já a pós-verdade.

The Secular Role of the Catholic Church in Present-Day Poland∗

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Syzmon Chodak
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Development ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
Jacques Ellul ◽  
The Catholic Church

Many writers, among them Alexis de Toqueville, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jose Ortega y Gasset and, more recently, Jacques Ellul, have predicted that as a result of technological and political development, the mass societies in which we now live will be fully transformed into distopian regimes by the end of this century. They foresaw the emergence of vast, regimented systems in which people would live lonely, dehumanized lives under the tutelage of all-providing and all-pervading hierarchies made up of functionaries and intellectuals, pitifully subservient to the ruling elite.

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