FEAR STRUCK US: THE EMPTINESS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND THE ETHICAL CRISES IN 20TH CENTURY DYSTOPIAS
This paper aims to analyze the unfolding of ethics in the dystopian novels We (1924), by Evgeni Zamiátin, and 1984 (1949), by George Orwell, in order to understand which paths lead subjects and society to face, in the dystopian universe, an ethical crisis. In these narratives, it is observed that ethics among gaps since the dominant institutions in these spaces use the emptying and massification of subjects to manage power through a biased moral ideology, based on the propaganda that sustains the totalitarian state of dystopia.
KEYWORDS: Ethics; Crisis; Dystopia; Totalitarian State; Ideology.O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os desdobramentos da ética nos romances distópicos Nós (1924), de Evgeni Zamiátin, e 1984 (1949), de George Orwell, de modo a entender quais os caminhos que levam sujeitos e sociedade a enfrentarem, no universo distópico, uma crise ética. Nas narrativas em questão, observa-se que a ética em lacunas porque as instituições dominantes nesses espaços se utilizam do esvaziamento e massificação dos sujeitos para gerenciamento de poder por meio de uma ideologia moral tendenciosa, baseada na propaganda que sustenta o Estado totalitário da distopia
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