“God is Power”: A Discussion of Religion in the Dystopian Worlds of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

27. April 202527. April 2025 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

In the first half of the 20th century, an economic depression, two world wars, waves of communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, the rise of fascism and dictatorship in Germany, Italy and Spain, and ultimately the beginning of the Nuclear Age left the population of Europe polarised and anxious. What sounds like a dystopian novel itself … Continue reading “God is Power”: A Discussion of Religion in the Dystopian Worlds of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

An Inquiry into the Abiding Popularity of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

7. April 2022 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

The future is now In 2017, exactly 35 years after Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) was released in cinemas, moviegoers were once again brought back to the dystopian science-fiction world based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The reason for this was the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel Blade … Continue reading An Inquiry into the Abiding Popularity of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Atonement by Ian McEwan

23. June 201914. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ Leave a comment

Her words reverberate in his head. Her words keep him going. They remind him why he has to survive. He has to come back, and live the life he deserves to live. With her. Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement begins five years earlier, on a summer day in 1935 at the Tallis’ family estate in the … Continue reading Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

20. January 201914. January 2020 ~ leaalineh ~ 3 Comments

Margaret Atwood once said: ''When I wrote the Handmaid's Tale, nothing went into it that had not happened in real life, somewhere in some time.''Finishing her dystopian novel, I can now officially confirm her statement. The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, in which the protagonist Offred is one of the Handmaids, … Continue reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood