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Title (RE)IMAGINING TOTALITARIAN ABSURDITY: A REDUCTIONIST APPROACH FOR ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTED NARRATIVES

Author(s) Muhammad Arif

Abstract The current study has taken into consideration Orwell’s 1984 and Bisma’s The Queue to identify the elements of despotism for the establishment of totalitarian regimes and to reduce them to an absurdity. This study aims to highlight the failure of totalitarian regimes in terms of ground realities. Historical instances show that such governments used various techniques like, insurgency, censorship of media, changing the facts and oppression of the masses by the totalitarian rulers to sustain the authority in the state. This project highlights these horrendous efforts of the absolute authorities in the selected texts and reduces them to an absurdity on practical grounds. The theoretical framework which has been used is totalitarian absurdity. It looks for the totalitarian governments and the tactics they use in order to rule the masses and reduces them to an absurdity as they fail in the long run. In the light of the results it can be safely argued that there is a constant effort on the part of the state to suppress the masses but there is always a revolt on the part of the oppressed masses who deny the authority. The more the authority proves to be strict the more it augments the potential of the subjugated masses to show revolt. Thus one can rightly say that totalitarian regimes besides their every possible effort can be drawn to an absurdity.

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Publication Date 2018-10-26

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