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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 uppsatser innehållade ordet huxley.
1. Nature as an uncontrolled space in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World'
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : This paper suggests that dystopian fiction should receive more attention within the environmental advocacy space. Despite the genre’s ability to provoke the reader, it is rarely interpreted in an environmental context. LÄS MER
2. Accommodating Perspectives on Religious History : A Study of Satire and Narrative Structure in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay is an analysis of Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow and how it can be read as exposing social hypocrisy and tracing social flaws through England’s religious history. The analysis uses narratology as a tool for exploring how the author can be perceived as offering a perspective on religious history that might have been controversial in his day. LÄS MER
3. “Better Does Not Mean Better for Everyone” – Gender Oppression in 20st Century Speculative Fiction : How Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Can be Used to Increase Learner Motivation and in Teaching Critical Thinking to Students in Upper Secondary School
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : This essay analyzes the narrative surrounding women’s right to autonomy in two novels in the Speculative Fiction genre, more specifically the 20th century dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985), and the anti-utopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932), while arguing for the pedagogical merit of both works. Matters regarding female independence and gender equality are in consistent flux, and any uprise in feminist movements and female emancipation has most commonly been met with resistance. LÄS MER
4. A Matter of Time : Was Red Rising’s Gold Society Ripe for Revolution?
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitetSammanfattning : This C-paper looks at Pierce Brown’s book Red Rising. The first book of a two trilogy series set in adystopian future where humankind has terraformed other planets and moons. The paper explains theways in which Red Rising handles class, and classism through a Marxist lens. LÄS MER
5. Male Patriarchy and "Othering" : Brave New World from a Postcolonial and Feminist Perspective
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/EngelskaSammanfattning : This paper aims to show how Brave New World, a dystopia by Aldous Huxley, has strong postcolonial traces within it. Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and Gayatri Spivak's analyses of Bertha Mason, the fictional representation of the colonial female subject in nineteenth-century English literature, tie up the similarities in how the Reservation and Linda are portrayed within the book. LÄS MER
