Livro 1984: representação da modernidade e previsão distópica da pós-modernidade

Abstract

George Orwell's dystopia, 1984, is known worldwide for dealing with fairly current discussions, even though it was written in the late 1940s, presenting characteristics of modernity and postmodernity. Neither context can be considered as stable moments, however we have defined, occording to te view of the main authors studied in this research, modernity as a consequence of industrialization and a period in which society was involved in political and ideological conflicts related to social issues generated by rapid urbanization. Whereas postmodernity was defined as a time that society is focused on issues of minority groups while a new cultural setting is being built. This graduation work researchs these characteristics to justify whether 1984 can be classified as a work of modernity that presents a dystopian prediction of what would become postmodernity, a work of postmodernity or a work of the transition between the two conjunctures. The methodology used consists of bibliographical research based mainly on the authors Fredric Jameson (2007), David Harvey (2008), Edward Burns (2007), Marshall McLuhan (1973) and the author of 1984, George Orwell (2006), besides a review of the novel in the light of the discussions held by the authors.