Framing catastrophe: the problem of ending in dystopian fiction.(Part V: Future Fictions)(Critical essay)

From: Arena Journal | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Milner, Andrew | Copyright information

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is the most famous of all English-language dystopias. (1) And we all know how it ends: 'But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother'. Reminding us exactly where we have arrived at, the novel then reads, in most subsequent editions as in the first: 'THE END'. (2) Little wonder that Raymond Williams should have read it as 'desperate because ... on such a construction...

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