... about tomorrow, but rather about today. As Jonathan Swift put it, the idea is "reductio ad absurdum" can be seen as the maxim for almost every utopian/dystopian writer that followed. Nevertheless, dystopian stories take invariably take place in the future. The year 1984 may have past, but George Orwell's story described a plausible future scenario when it was published for the ... Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924), which was the novel that in turn inspired both Huxley and Orwell, the aforementioned Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World, as well as early sci-fi films such as Fritz Lang's Metrop...

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... of the loose cannons of law enforcement. Even more sinister, the Beethoven-loving thug is now conditioned against powerful symphonies since classical music is used to accompany the State's brutal films. Burgess, while not condoning Alex's actions, stresses that the denial of choice is a greater evil than violence. In the noble cause of making him "good," the State destroys the good ... his humanity in the process. In the second phase of his two-pronged approach, Burgess depicts evil as prevalent in mankind. According to the author, the cycle of youth violence followed by adult maturity ...

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