DYSTOPIA AO5

Question 1

Ben Pimlott

Answer 1

• “of lonely defiance- furtive sex and deadly terror”
• “widely read as social comment, and even prophecy”
• “totalitarianism was a stalking fear. Nazi Germany in the recent past, Russia and China in the present, framed the Western political concoius.”

Question 2

Booker: defining texts of dystopian fiction

Answer 2

We, Brave New World, and 1984 are the ‘great defining texts of the genre of dystopian fiction’