Author(s): Tülay AKKOYUN
With its pessimist insights for the future dystopia fiction is a genre that sheds light upon the concerns of the era in which it was created. One of the well-known examples of this genre, the Nineteen Eighty – Four depicts individuals under total control of the state in the pessimist world that it created.
The protagonist Winston Smith is a part of the mechanism that sustains this order and the novel narrates Smith’s struggle for freedom with deep psychological analysis.
In this study, which takes George Orwell’s novelNineteen Eighty – Four to the main axis, the idea that the dystopia fiction might very well be a medium for political discourse that conveys the silent outcry of the writer as an intellectual is discussed.
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