Biology, Culture, and Persistent Literary Dystopias

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Biology, Culture, and Persistent Literary Dystopias looks at a number of literary dystopias — Brave New World, 1984, We, A Handmaid’s Tale — and finds one central similarity:

Literary dystopias have this in common: They are imagined societies in which the deepest demands of human nature are either subverted, perverted, or simply made unattainable.

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