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Abstract
This thesis deals with the concept of utopia and dystopia in science fiction novels. It seeks to investigate how utopian writings play a central role in revealing the weaknesses of societies and presenting a formative criticism towards them. There is a great focus on criticizing the social systems of the society in the two novels chosen for analysis, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). Using the thematic and technical approaches, the concept of utopia and dystopia is examined in two perspectives. On one hand, utopia has been investigated as a sub-genre of science fiction, and on the other hand as a significant genre to expose the society ills, deliver the two authors’ ideas, and finally to give women the chance to present their demands. The analyzed characters in these novels reveal clearly the amount of suffering in their society. Because this thesis is a literary study, it seeks to extract as much information as possible from the narratives. Thus, the study made in this thesis is a literary one, with no ambition to make an all-inclusive sociological analysis.