Date of Award
5-2019
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
English: English Studies: M.A.
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Constance Perry
Second Advisor
Sharon Cogdill
Third Advisor
Michael Dando
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
This paper explores three dystopian novels: Fahrenheit 451 (1950) by Ray Bradbury, The Circle (2013) by Dave Eggers, and Tell the Machine Goodnight (2018) by Katie Williams to bring to light how dystopian novels foreshadow technological control over people. The novels and characters within the texts are analyzed to show how each author warns readers in distinctive ways about the dangers of allowing technology to consume their lives. Additionally, this paper also investigates how a secondary education teacher could go about teaching their students these lessons, after exploring the novels in this study.
Recommended Citation
Croteau, Ashley, "Using Literature to Teach about Technology and Social Manipulation in Society" (2019). Culminating Projects in English. 153.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/engl_etds/153
