ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following books was not a Dystopian novel from the 30s, 40s, or 50s?
A
Anthem
B
Brave New World
C
1984
D
Wonder
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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…

Detailed explanation-3: -The Drowned World by JG Ballard (1962) Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1968) Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) 23-Oct-2019

Detailed explanation-4: -Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Blindness by José Saramago. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The Children of Men by P.D. More items •28-Feb-2020

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