Dystopia in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) and Boualem Sansal’s 2084 The End of the World (2015): A Comparative Study.

Abstract

This dissertation is concerned with a comparative study of two dystopian novels, George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) and BoualemSansal’s2084 The End of the World (2015). The purpose of the study is basically to delve deeply into the conception of Dystopia within a specific theoretical framework: Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu’s Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Dystopia (2020) and Michael Foucault’s Discipline and Punish- The Birth of The Prison (1995). We basically aim to show thatSansal’s2084 The End of the World goes beyond the argument that states it as a rewriting of Orwell’s 1984. This is done by the introduction of the concepts of “immanent” and “transcendent” dystopia. In fact, the focus will be on the different ideological perspectives that are rooted in diverse societal contexts, on the portrayal of political and religious extremism, and the suppression of intellectual freedom, within the selected dystopian novels. The analysis focuses on the examination of technology, propaganda, surveillance, submission and linguistic sabotage. It examines the ways in which Orwell and Sansal utilize dystopia as a vehicle for social critique, drawing attention to the dangers of unchecked power, ideological manipulation, the erosion and the deterritorialization of personal autonomy.