Simultaneously whimsical and dark, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five stretches the genre of the dystopian and possibly expands beyond it. The narrative focuses on Billy Pilgrim,...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian classic, a fireman’s job is to find the houses where books were illegally hidden. He then burns both the books and their not-so safe havens...
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At the beginning of Part Three, the prison releases Alex after he successfully demonstrates the effects of Ludovico’s Technique. To those who experimented on him, Alex is the image of a bad-to-good...
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When we left Alex in Part One, he was being arrested. His situation is decidedly different from when we first met Alex in the first part of the novel, but Part Two begins with the same question...
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Written in 1963, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange follows a young violent teen who undergoes forced reform from delinquency. This dystopian classic encompasses all of the beauties of...
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Hello, fellow English nerds! If you are like me and love how the many elements of literature come together, then you will thoroughly enjoy this series on dystopian literature. Entrenched...
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