Dystopian Characters In Ray Bradbury's A Brave New World

It is my firm belief that literature is a way to get to know other cultures, to escape from reality or to live a new adventure, and every book you read and love leaves something behind, like a lesson. And particularly in those books there are always characters that you like so much that you see yourself as if you were those people involved in the stories. When you are a teenage girl, those characters are usually girls that are your age, because, indeed, you want to know that maybe one day you can be as strong as them. This leads us to consider these characters as role models for teenagers who read this type of books, and that is something to bear in mind when writing or reading them. All in all, I decided to mainly write about the portrayal

To a certain extent, when people think about dystopian novels, the first ones that come to their minds are usually A Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, 1984 (1949) by George Orwell, or Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury, all of which have in common the fact that the protagonist of the story is a man. However, this tendency has changed in the last few years, at least when it comes to dystopian books written for young adults, where the main character is usually a woman. Nevertheless, while it is true to say that women have had the leading role in these stories lately, in fact, that does not mean that there are none dystopian books for teenagers with a male protagonist, for instance The Maze Runner trilogy (2009) by James Dashner or The Giver (1993) by Lois

It was not until a few decades ago, right after the second wave of feminism, that women began to appear in this type of narrative as protagonists, being the ones that made that crusade in order to live in a peaceful environment. This tendency of giving women a more important role in the story not only affected the dystopian narrative, but all the literary genres where men took the control, so to speak, over the past centuries. Since the aforementioned tendency had influenced many genres, the dystopian stories in the so called Young Adult genre (later referred as YA) were not different. It was especially in this genre when a few years ago the tendencies completely changed, in order to provide the readers with new stories where the main character was a woman, more specifically, a teenage