Totalitarianism In Pirates Of The Universe

Totalitarianism is one of the classical theories that have been widely used in the literature-based context in analyzing a text. There are several researches done previously using the same theory which is totalitarianism but on different texts. There are quite a number of dystopian novels that promoted totalitarianism. One of the famous texts is Pirates of the Universe (1996) by Terry Bisson that portrays a depressing and imaginative kind of living. According to Lyman, authors of dystopias distinguish perilous tendencies in contemporary society and intensify them in their fiction in order to notify and warn readers about these dangerous trajectories and also encourage them to take a step to prevent a possibility of dystopian futures (1979).

According to Peter (2001), dystopia emerges during the Cold War anti-communism and Free World anti-totalitarianism to focus on the tendencies implicit by the war and warns the future danger of it and also suggests possible utopian features. Pirates of the Universe, for example portrays a bleak future where private advertising agencies run large conglomerates, create bio-engineered food in a world of scarce natural resources, use advanced techniques of psychological suggestion to addict consumers to products and control the government by in effect owning both legislators and regulatory agencies. Cat’s Cradle (1963) also portrays the same perspective of how advanced science can threaten the society. The writer of Pirates of the Universe, Bisson emphasizes the centrality of expectation and perception, how individuals imagine, perceive and misperceive, and respond to what exists and to the potentially new world that human beings cannot

Ultimately, however, Orwell is appeared to be opposed to the fundamental intellectual dishonesty of the totalitarian regime, where the novel ends up implying that the scholarly gesture of archival “recovery” has the potential to produce its own troubling effects of domination. Dieterle (2003) states that Nineteen Eighty-Four deals with the parallel between the societies described in the novel and also thesociety of the German Democratic Republic. It is also stated that the novel outwardly protest current politics and leadership (Stuver, 1998). The previous research done by Siswantia and Murni (2012) applied the theory of totalitarianism on the Suzanne Collins novel which is The Hunger Games. The totalitarian government in the novel is led by the ruling city, named as Capitol who sets all the laws. The leader in the society lead the society in a totalitarian way by distinguishing the society in different District that have their own specialty and the higher the district is the better their life