Tag: dystopia
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The Fictional Thirst and Postmodern Hunger
“Verily, hardship is followed by ease.” -Quran 94:6 Fiction is valued for its magnificent ability to portray lived ideologies in metaphorical form. Such portrayals are assessed, positively or negatively, according to how persuasively their metaphors are developed and sustained. Recently, I happened to choose a work that struck me as a generative metaphor. South Korean…
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The Lure of Excess: A Review of Aldous Huxley’s ‘The Brave New World’
Published in 1932, Aldous Huxley’s fictional microcosm within Brave New World is set in the novel’s “year of stability,” 632 years after the commercial advent of American car magnate Henry Ford (d.1947). Ford’s widely successful Model T was the first automobile manufactured solely through mass-production using methods such as the conveyor belt assembly process. Ford…