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Anti - Utopias According to Antony Burgess
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| 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 |
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…
Hipotēze: Berdžesa romānā “The wanting seed” radītais sabiedrības attīstības strukturālais modelis var tikt izmantots kā bāze antiutopiju klasifikācijas sistēmas radīšanai Pašlaik Latvijā un pasaulē ir vērojama spēcīga interese pret anti-utopijām, bet sakarā ar to, ka sistēma to klasifikācijai nav izstrādāta, antiutopiju pētīšana ir apgrūtināta. Šis pētījums ir mēģinājums piedāvāt sistēmu anti-utopiju klasifikācijai, balstoties uz E. Berdžesa romānā „The wanting seed” aprakstīto sabiedrības attīstības sistēmu. Darba gaitā izrādījās, ka šī sistēma var būt veiksmīgi pielietota lai klasificētu vairākumu anti – utopiju, tika izstrādātas katras fāzes antiutopju galvenās pazīmes.
