ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What was the effect of Dystopian Literature in the 30s, 40s, and 50s? It was a powerful way for American writers to criticize communism and socialism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system. Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society. Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brave New World (1932)-Aldous Huxley. Fahrenheit 451 (1953)-Ray Bradbury. Lord of the Flies (1954)-William Golding. A Clockwork Orange (1962)-Anthony Burgess.

Detailed explanation-4: -A modern literary genre, the dystopia, was invented by Yevgeny Zamyatin in his novel My (1924; We), which could be published only abroad. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, which are modeled on it, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to…