Character and Dystopia

This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We , Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange , Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go , Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground , George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four , Nathanael West’s A Cool Million , David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross , Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower , Lois Lowry’s