The World as a Wasteland in Post-Apocalyptic Literature
[2023-05-15 08:17:16]
Over the years, postmodern authors have predicted the end of the world with literary works through the expression of drama. Cormac McCarthy 's The Road and Margaret Atwood' s novel "Oryx & Crake" are no exception. Exploring the complexity of the existence of humans on the earth, these writers use their novels as a means to portray the post-apocalyptic world. There, all the previous world was scaled down to the image and literally incredible wasteland. From the beginning, McCarthy laid the stage for his readers His role occupies a beautiful and tedious explanation of the wastelands where they live: "Night darkness in the darkness, daily gray is More than past ... more ... More contents
Like McCarthy, Atwood also used a similar approach because he quickly established the background of his speculative novel with a series of vivid images. Roses, deadly light "(Atwood) 3). But with her visual cues Atwood made a further step forward. By reading the reader's previous knowledge of the current world dilemma, Atwood can connect anxiety and even fear. For example, on page 63, Atwood wrote an example, and many people may compare many concerns about the danger of global warnings:
Like the beach house she owned as a child, she was washed away to other beaches and there are many eastern coasts. When the sea level suddenly rises, the city is a huge tide volcano from the Canary Islands "(Atwood 63)
Atwood accepted the reality, completely distorted it and put her sentences aside. At page 173, Atwood describes conditions that are considered abnormal in any imagination: "Jimmy and Craig graduated from HelthWyzer High on a warm, wet day in early February, which also pushed it in early February They ran twist for a day. "Expansion from these statements
Once all these are done, you can draw out the final conclusion about the end of the end literature of the 21st century. Regardless of what it contains or lacking, the literature after the Apocalypse can not avoid the advantages of the way of the wasteland. As this theme provides too rich substance to ignore, writers such as McCarthy and Atwood play a role in each novel. If there is an opportunity to create a landscape image and these opportunities may never exist, these authors will use their novels as a medium for predicting the world if the human continues at the advancing speed. Now, the only problem is whether their predictions will be realized.
The setting itself may be a role. Let's think about The Road of Cormac McCarthy, the old and despicable Paris of Aliette de Bodard, the scourge of the magical war at Broken House, Orleans of Sherri L Smith who drowned in the south. In all of these books, not only is the place triggered but it also affects the character and forces them to choose.
Such a miserable image may remind you of the wasteland post-apocalyptic movie scene. As we are being enjoyed by the image of dry valley, our culture seems to be addicted to post apocalyptic novels. Whether it's a small screen, a big screen or a paper book, we are always introducing various post apocalyptic imaginations. These novels draw a distort pier, the earth is completely destroyed and the civilization collapses. The reasons for these distro peer settings are different. Nuclear warfare, alien invasion, asteroid influence, extreme climate change or ecological collapse, artificial intelligence technology, the rise of terrorist robots, global pandemics (such as bots). . I like to stand alone as if there is a knot in the dry valley, I stimulate myself using these various eschatological later scenes and put myself in the vision loss environment I like that.
Recently, when I roll a feed, this recurring vision will be on my mind that explosive digital devastated land after advertisement is full, nuclear bomb clicking on bait, and fake news exploded. was. The so-called "meaningful interaction" sucking mushroom clouds under the sun aimed for garbage and ambiguity. Is the sound rough? How does soci