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Apocalypse is No More Far, it is here: Prognostication about Technological Jeopardies in Dystopian Fiction and Film

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dc.contributor.author Mursheeda, Afia
dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-20T09:37:01Z
dc.date.available 2021-06-20T09:37:01Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-01
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/3120
dc.description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. en_US
dc.description.abstract The aim of this dissertation is to showcase that dystopian fictions are consist of predictions regarding few technological hazard which currently might not seem like a threat towards us. Living in 21st century, our life is immersed in science and technological advancement and we are extremely welcoming towards those technological flourishing as we do not want to be non-progressive. However, while welcoming the gradual technological flourishment to make life more comfortable and advanced, we are inviting some unexplainable threats towards us. This thesis has focused on three such emerging crisis, which are; obsession towards electrical beauty enhancement, invasion of surveillance through social media and the use of life comforting technological tools and lastly, threat towards human originality caused by the normalization of body enhancement i.e. cyborg and extreme practice of genetic engineering. This thesis will attempt to demonstrate that authors of dystopian fictions have attempted to warn the readers by foreseeing and predicting few crucial technological hazard. While doing so, this thesis have used five primary sources which consists of three novels, one TV series and one Movie. The used novels are, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, Uglies (2005) by Scott Westerfeld, If I had Your Face (2020) by Frances Cha. The two other primary visual fictions are, American TV series You (2018), developed by Greg Berlanti and Sara Gamble and Dystopian sci-fi film RoboCop (2014) directed by José Padilha. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ENG00173
dc.subject Dystopia, prediction, artificial beauty enhancement, surveillance, genetic engineering, transhumanism, posthumanism en_US
dc.title Apocalypse is No More Far, it is here: Prognostication about Technological Jeopardies in Dystopian Fiction and Film en_US
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dc.type Thesis en_US


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