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Dystopia Eagerness (See ZEAL.) Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79] inhabitants worship superficiality, unreason, inconsistency, and evasion: a lampoon of 19th-century society. [Br. Lit.: Erewhon in Haydn & Fuller, 239] |
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In this fifth book in the Traces series, the government of a futuristic dystopic England is attempting to restore the morale of the British people through the Youth International Games, a large-scale athletic competition. Other mind-blowing films include ``Children of Men,'' exploring a dystopic future on the verge of extinction; ``Pan's Labyrinth,'' illuminating a young girl's retreat into a fantasy world to escape the brutal reality of Franco's Spain; and ``A Scanner Darkly,'' about a narcotics cop's paranoid immersion into the very culture he's supposed to be policing. Like Lowry's recent dystopic novels, this book is rife with symbolic names and weighty-sounding terms; and, like them, this book's meaning is all right there on the surface, barely related to character or plot. |
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