A04

• Genre

  • 'speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already at hand' attwood
• dystopian novel

  • come from the greek for 'a not good place': atonym for utopia which coined by Thomas Moore 1516 latin novel to name a perfect word
• 1984 George Orwell


  created threatning tortallian state where gov survaliance, public manipulation ( but dystopian SCIENCE FICTION) fictional laungauge 'Newspeak' attempts remove all meaning launguage eliminating freedom of thought. Dystopian novels present tortallian societies supressing pop via presusaion and restiction launguage use (offred read,write)