Quest for the Impossible: Conformity and Sameness in Two Science Fiction Dystopias:
Quest for the Impossible: Conformity and Sameness in Two Science Fiction Dystopias:

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993)

Author(s): Radwan Gabr El–Sobky
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: utopia; dystopia; conformity; sameness; Aldous Huxley; Lois Lowry
Summary/Abstract: This paper is a comparative study of the quest for the impossible: conformity and sameness in two science fiction dystopias: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Britain in 1932) and Lois Lowry’s The Giver (America in 1993). It is an attempt to demonstrate the two novelists’ ideologies of the quest for perfection through achieving conformity and sameness in two dystopian societies; such a quest is a quest for the impossible. The methodology of this study is based mainly on the concept of dystopian science fiction and on the characteristics of the dystopian society depicted in science fiction literature that are stated in M. Keith Booker’s Dystopian Literature: a Theory and Research Guide (1994), and in M. Keith Booker’s and Anne–Marie Thomas’ “Dystopian Science Fiction” in The Science Fiction Handbook (2009).

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