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Society in the English Literary Dystopia
Abstract
The paper deals with the nature of totalitarian societies in Anthony
Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Apart from the fundamental characteristics and values of these societies, as well as
the particular views of both a male and a female writer on this subject, the paper
analyzes the relationship between dystopian and real modern societies through
various authors’ observations.
Themes of Nature and humanity's abuse of it have long featured in Margaret Atwood's works: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The author is an environmental activist herself, taking an active interest in current environmental and climate change issues. From one of her earliest novels Surfacing (1972) to her seminal work The Handmaid's Tale (1985) to the more recent MaddAddam trilogy (comprising the novels Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013)), Atwood has commented on and criticized humanity's treatment of nature as something to be dominated and beaten into submission. In the context of the current cultural and environmental crisis the world is experiencing, this paper will analyze Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy through the lens of ecocriticism and examine how closely her vision of eco-dystopia reflects the current state of affairs in the world.
Due to the globalization and high demand of international
market, business correspondence is being performed mainly in English,
making the English language lingua franca in international trade. This
paper shows in what degree the English language is, as the language for
specific purposes, important in the international trading companies; it
studies the connection between the professional position of an employee
in a company, the usage and understanding of the language. Together
with examples from the research conducted, this paper provides some
answers to the questions – what professional positions are most likely to
change in terms of the English language usage, that is, on which professional
positions is the language known best?
Keywords: Business English, international trade, trading companies,
business correspondence, knowledge of business English
The article explores how language can been used as a resource of cultural value and creative power in Australian English. The paper reveals how Australian politicians use political language rhetoric as a powerful tool in gaining political advantages. Several segments of so-called "public discourse" have been analysed, but the author mainly focuses on two areas of speech: how politicians use their language skills in gaining public support, and how they shirk responsibility. Special discoursal features of these speeches have been compiled and categorised. The speeches are studied from the various angles of discourse analysis and political rhetoric techniques.
Last century philosophers made a great step forward in understanding the way in which we use words in order to achieve something in the real world. They pointed to the fact that we perform speech acts when we speak. The production of speech acts is governed by some rules which help us understand the utterance meaning and decode the speaker meaning. Moreover, in a discourse, the speech acts are organized linearly in sequences of micro-speech acts, and hierarchically in macro-speech acts, which are associated with an entire piece of discourse. As the right choice of speech acts in advertisements contribute to the achievement of the advertiser's goals, the present article selects its examples from various advertisements placed in some English magazines.
Disability is an inescapable element of human existence and experience. Although it is rarely acknowledged as such, it is also a fundamental aspect of human diversity. It is so, first, in the sense that, worldwide, an enormous number of people are disabled. The proportion of disabled people in different national populations varies significantly with factors such as economic development, quality and availability of health care, and the age distribution of the population. (In the United States, people with disabilities make up the population's largest minority: Census 2000 found nearly twenty percent of the population over five years of age to be affected by some sort of disability [United States, Census Bureau].) Furthermore, because of the way this minority is constituted, it is arguably more diverse than those of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Disabilities may affect one's senses or one's mobility; they may be static or progressive, congenital or acquired, formal (affecting the shape of the body) or functional, visible or invisible.
Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed, authorised biography of Britain’s most popular playwright
Alan Ayckbourn is Britain’s most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays and has worked with some of theatre’s most celebrated names, yet he spends most of his time away from the limelight in a Yorkshire seaside town not writing at all but running a small repertory theatre.
This is a portrait of a man who – from Relatively Speaking in 1965 to his double play House and Garden at the National Theatre in 2000 – has chronicled human behaviour, our aspirations and insecurities, while shaping the theatrical experience of millions.
“Mr Allen’s book makes me want to start reading the entire Ayckbourn canon over again...splendid stuff” Hugh Leonard, Sunday Independent
“Paul Allen has come up with a wise, well-informed book that not only persuades us of Ayckbourn’s genius but also helps to explain this complex, driven man” Michael Billington, Country Life
“Lucid, meticulously researched ... this impressively detailed account benefits from Paul Allen’s rich inside knowledge of theatre” Terry Eagleton, Times Literary Supplement
“Thorough and enjoyable” Christopher Hirst, Independent
after the plastic surgery, the
guitar lessons, the war, hitler
learns he can sing, high atop his
pink palace, he wonders why he didn't
think of this before, his fans are
better, his outfits brighter, and the
drugs are the best he's ever had. people
love him. he still can't act, but hell,
now he gets paid for walking funny.
– Keith Alley
Adolf hitler is no laughing matter. In a world where truth is now generally thought to be relative. Hitler often seems to stand as the lone remaining absolute: the incarnation of absolute evil. Even the most broad-minded tolerance for cultural diversity seems to stop short of embracing Nazi culture as a legitimate human possibility. Hitler has become an argument stopper: “You say all value is subjective: Does that mean we have no objective grounds for condemning what Hitler did at Auschwitz and Buchenwald?” In short, people who can agree on nothing else will join together in rejecting Hitler and all he stood for. To defend or admire Hitler is to risk removing oneself from the acceptable range of rational discourse and branding oneself as a dangerous extremist or an outright kook.
Don DeLillo is a disturbing writer, and nothing shows more clearly how disturbing he can be than his unconventional treatment of Hitler in White Noise. The novel centers on Jack Gladney, a professor who specializes in Hitler studies at a small college.
