Unlike the future utopia that Edward Bellamy created in Looking Backward, in which he sought to fix perceived social problems of the late 19th century, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court instead looks to highlight the positive aspects of the United States in 1889 by placing all that knowledge in the time […]
Author: Sebastian Coppotelli
Little Rascals: Representations of the Hitler Youth in George Orwell’s 1984
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the reader is introduced to Winston Smith, an outsider in a society under totalitarian rule by Big Brother. Though Smith works for the Party he feels himself outside of it, relishing in small rebellions against the state. Smith, like many dystopian protagonists, begins his downfall by writing in a […]
Mad Marx: The Dangers of Capitalism in H.G Wells’ The Time Machine
In H.G. Wells’ 1895 novel, The Time Machine, the reader follows an unnamed protagonist known only as “the Time Traveler” into the distant future. Initially the Time Traveler is met by the small and happy, though dimwitted, descendants of the human race known as the Eloi. A peaceful society, they eat only fruit and live […]