Anti - Utopias According to Antony Burgess / ID: 180976

Author: Ivars Stankevičs (1)

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Published: 01.03.2008.

Language: English

Level: Secondary school

Literature: 15 units

References: Used

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Table of contents

Nr.	Chapter	Page.
	Introduction	3
	The survey of literature	5
1.	Theoretical part	6
1.1.	Utopia and Anti-utopia	6
1.2.	Religious basis of Burgess system	7
1.3.	Introduction of observed anti-utopists	9
2.	Practical part	13
2.1.	Structural model of the classification of anti-utopias	13
2.2.	Pelphase (Brave new World)	15
2.3.	Interphase (1984)	18
2.4.	Gusphase (Clockwork orange)	19
2.5.	Examples of the classification	20
	Conclusion	23
	Literature and used sources	25
	Anotācija	27
	Abstract	28

Extract

The theme of the research: Anti – utopias according to Anthony Burgess
In XXI century political, social and cultural causes led to the rebirth of the anti – utopias – from the phenomenon of the mass culture “The Matrix” by the Wachowski brothers to the Russian writer’s Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Oprichnik’s day”. As a result there is a huge growth of interest about this genre. But the fact that anti-utopias are not classified, as for example, fiction is (Sci-fi, Fantasy, etc.) creates problems in researching and comparing anti-utopias. In this research the structural model of the development of the society, created in A.Burgess’s novel «The Wanting Seed»will be used to create a working system to classify anti-utopias

Hypothesis: The structural model of the development of the society, created in A.Burgess’s novel «The Wanting Seed»can be used as a base for the creation of the classification system of anti – utopias.

The tasks:
to investigate the meaning of the term “anti - utopia”
to read the novels “Brave new world”, “Clockwork orange”, “1984”, “The wanting seed”
to analyze the structure of social order, relation systems in previously mentioned novels

Methods used:
deduction
analysis
comparison
drawing conclusions…