Dystopi i Karin Boyes roman Kallocain och Aldous Huxleys Du sköna nya värld

undergraduate thesis

• Title (english): Dystopia in Karin Boye's novel Kallocain and Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
• Author: Nina Laganović
• Mentor: Mišo Grundler (mentor)
• Mentor: Janica Tomić (sumentor)
• Committee member: Mišo Grundler (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Janica Tomić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2021, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; German Studies

Abstract

Ovaj završni rad bavi se usporedbom elemenata distopijskih romana na primjeru djela švedske autorice Karin Boye Kallocain, pisanog 1940. godine, i romana engleskog književnika Aldousa Huxleya Vrli novi svijet, napisanog osam godina prije. Književna distopija razvija se sredinom dvadesetog stoljeća paralelno u Švedskoj i ostatku svijeta kao reakcija na utopijski žanr. Važnu ulogu u tom razvitku imao je ruski pisac Jevgenij Zamjatin i njegov roman Mi, od kojega su preuzeta mnoga obilježja kasnijih distopijskih romana, među kojima su i Kallocain i Vrli novi svijet. Na primjeru tih dvaju romana mogu se uočiti brojne sličnosti u prikazivanju metoda državne kontrole, manipulacijskih sredstava i ustroja društvenih vrijednosti, a može se usporediti i reakcija protagonista romana na takav državni sistem. Oba romana su književni kanoni, koji značajno doprinose razumijevanju ne samo književne distopije, već i vremena u kojem su pisani.

Abstract (english)

This bachelor thesis examines elements of dystopian novels in Kallocain, the work of a Swedish author Karin Boye written in 1940, and in Brave New World, the novel of an English writer Aldous Huxley written eight years earlier. Literary dystopia developed in the mid-twentieth century both in Sweden and the rest of the world as a reaction to the utopian genre. A Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin played an important role in this development; his novel We and its features were used in many later dystopian novels, in Kallocain and Brave New World among others. These two novels can serve as an example for numerous similarities in the representation of methods of state control, manipulative means and structure of social values. Even the reaction of novel's protagonists to such a state system can be compared. Both novels are literary canons that significantly contribute to the understanding of not only literary dystopia, but also the era they were written in.

• Keywords: Distopija; distopijski romani; Kallocain; Vrli novi svijet; utopija
• Keywords (english): Dystopia; dystopian novels; Kallocain; Brave new world; utopia
• Language: swedish
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:757627
• Study programme: Title: Swedish Language and Culture (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: undergraduate; Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) švedskog jezika i kulture (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) švedskog jezika i kulture)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2021-07-18 20:29:57