Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longin... more Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longing manifested in literary works, has been touched by the dark side of reality, transforming Utopia into Dystopia; a world of conflict and chaos. Sara Gruen (1969) captivates this undeniable reality in her novel Water for Elephants (2006) and shows that the so called ideal society can still have a tragic flaw. This study intends to prove the existence of a Dystopian world in Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants, and how it is shaped within a miniature society of a circus. In the life of this circus, the elements of Dystopia come together to portray the degeneration of society during the Great Depression of (1929 – 1941) in the United States of America; creating a world everyone thought at the very beginning was Utopia. Therefore, this study unravels the layers of perfection and shows the flaws of this so called perfect man-made world (the circus) by using the theoretical approach of the ...
Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longin... more Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longing manifested in literary works, has been touched by the dark side of reality, transforming Utopia into Dystopia; a world of conflict and chaos. Sara Gruen (1969) captivates this undeniable reality in her novel Water for Elephants (2006) and shows that the so called ideal society can still have a tragic flaw. This study intends to prove the existence of a Dystopian world in Sara Gruen's novel Water for Elephants, and how it is shaped within a miniature society of a circus. In the life of this circus, the elements of Dystopia come together to portray the degeneration of society during the Great Depression of (1929-1941) in the United States of America; creating a world everyone thought at the very beginning was Utopia. Therefore, this study unravels the layers of perfection and shows the flaws of this so called perfect man-made world (the circus) by using the theoretical approach of th...
Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longin... more Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longing manifested in literary works, has been touched by the dark side of reality, transforming Utopia into Dystopia; a world of conflict and chaos. Sara Gruen (1969) captivates this undeniable reality in her novel Water for Elephants (2006) and shows that the so called ideal society can still have a tragic flaw. This study intends to prove the existence of a Dystopian world in Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants, and how it is shaped within a miniature society of a circus. In the life of this circus, the elements of Dystopia come together to portray the degeneration of society during the Great Depression of (1929 – 1941) in the United States of America; creating a world everyone thought at the very beginning was Utopia. Therefore, this study unravels the layers of perfection and shows the flaws of this so called perfect man-made world (the circus) by using the theoretical approach of the ...
Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longin... more Humanity has always wanted to find peace, order, and justice in a perfect world. Yet, this longing manifested in literary works, has been touched by the dark side of reality, transforming Utopia into Dystopia; a world of conflict and chaos. Sara Gruen (1969) captivates this undeniable reality in her novel Water for Elephants (2006) and shows that the so called ideal society can still have a tragic flaw. This study intends to prove the existence of a Dystopian world in Sara Gruen's novel Water for Elephants, and how it is shaped within a miniature society of a circus. In the life of this circus, the elements of Dystopia come together to portray the degeneration of society during the Great Depression of (1929-1941) in the United States of America; creating a world everyone thought at the very beginning was Utopia. Therefore, this study unravels the layers of perfection and shows the flaws of this so called perfect man-made world (the circus) by using the theoretical approach of th...
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