Dys-topian dys-languages. Orwell, Huxley and Bradbury

Authors

  • Diana Thermes University of Calabria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1974-4935/6545

Keywords:

dystopia, Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury

Abstract

The language of dys-topia, both oral and written, is forced to be an upturned language, a kako-logos, even a no-language when is landing in Orwell’s Oceana: as well as the utopia, in the sense of eu-topia, capsizes  in dys-topia the dystopia language capsizes in dys-language.

Precisely, the Newspeak of Orwell, built by manipulating the language and by shorting drastically the dictionary, aims to prevent the subjects from communicating with each other and even from thinking  in order to make the Big Brother regime even more totalitarian. Similarly, to forbid any kind of literature allows the industrial producing system leaded by the Governor Mustafà Mond of Huxley and by the Government faceless of Bradbury to rule autocratically over a mass society harmonized, tidied, stabilized, and alienated through the use of latest technology for inducing it obsessively and deceitfully towards a growing consumerism.

Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

Thermes, D. (2016). Dys-topian dys-languages. Orwell, Huxley and Bradbury. Governare La Paura. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1974-4935/6545