현재와 미래에 대한 유토피아적 혹은 디스토피아적 상상: 조이스와 헉슬리 이어서 읽기 = Utopian or Dystopian Imaginations of Present and Future: Rereading Joyce and Huxley

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Although James Joyce and Aldous Huxley wrote novels in the similar period, there has been no study proving interrelationship or inter-influence between them. However, Joyce’s Ulysses and Huxley’s Brave New World demonstrate similarities in a number of aspects including thematic and stylistic innovations. Joyce, through Bloom’s fantasy in the 15th episode of Ulysses, presents utopian imagination in which everyone is happy and equal without any demarcations in gender, race, and class. Huxley, through Brave New World, paints a bleak picture of future in which human beings are manufactured and engineered much like machines in a tightly controlled process. In spite of seemingly contrary points of view between the two texts, this essay aims to prove that Joyce’s Ulysses and Huxley’s Brave New World, read and analyzed in juxtaposition, can provide a complementary vision even toward our own society when the real meaning of human beings are questioned ceaselessly along with technological advancement.