Violence Beyond the Utopian Society in Lois Lowry’s The Giver
Abstract
This article discusses violence in a constructed utopian society in The Giver, Lois
Lowry's distopian novel. We assume that 'sameness' as the governing system in the
novel is the source of violence. Therefore, this article aims to reveal the real
conditions beyond the utopian society. Applying genetic structuralism by Lucien
Goldmann, we analyze the presentation of society in the novel through the narrative
structure and relate them to discourses of American society in 1990s with Author as
the bridge of the fiction and real life. The result of this analysis shows that comfort
facilities provided by the government in a society is potential to hegemonize people
and dehumanize them for the sake of power.
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