UTOPIJA I DISTOPIJA U ROMANIMA MARGARET ATVUD
UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE AND ORYX AND CRAKE

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to discuss Atwood’s novels The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003) as works belonging to the subgenre of science fiction – social science fiction, or speculative fiction, in the words of Atwood herself. Social science fiction is concerned less with technology and more with sociological speculation about human society. Some roots of the genre may lie in such social speculations as utopian and dystopian fiction, which could be considered as extreme special cases of the genre. One of the first writers who used science fiction to explore sociological topics was H.G. Wells, with his classic The Time Machine(1895). The paper aims to demonstrate that Atwood’s novels are part of this tradition in English literature.

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