The Construction Of Dystopia In Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy

The dystopian novel is a type of narrative literature with the main focus on replacing the strange situation of history and reality.As a unique type of verbal construction,dystopian novels use the theme of Utopian novels as the latent text,and take the “anti” of Utopian philosophical thinking as the foothold.With the use of the post-modern narrative strategy,we are able to investigate how should the concept of Utopia be put into practice with the bleak situation and reflection on Utopia.Margaret Atwood,the Queen of Canadian Literature,depicts the darkness situation of the human race and the landscape of the end of the world,endangered by the unrestricted development of human technical rationality and the plundering of ecological nature in the latest “post-apocalypse trilogy”.The author's social thoughts and critics are related to technology,ecology and post-human and run through the social structure and the living conditions of characters in the novel.Atwood takes her unique anti-monomorphism theory,subject philosophy and her independent thinking on the essence of language as the starting point of anti-utopian thought.She condenses the characteristics of thought experiments into text practice,thus creating a dystopian construction with philosophical speculations and ideas as a consequence.The dystopian construction not only highlights the consistent formal experimental style of Atwood's novels,but also interprets the aesthetic value and ideological and cultural connotation within the narrate.It also appeals to the tension and reflection between history in the framework of dystopia in different time and space backgrounds.This article studies the internal and temporal construction of dystopia in the“post-apocalyptic trilogy” and the two-way interaction from the inner creative text structure practice to the external social thoughts and actions.The first chapter uses Atwood's dystopian construction theme to focus on the different types of classification.It analyzes the internal structure of three kinds of dystopias of technology,ecology and post-human.The second chapter analyzes the fictitious and narrative factorscontributing to dystopian construction and focuses on the discussion about how the dystopian construction uses the narrative strategy of narrative subject and narrative space-time mechanism to reach irony and criticism of history and truth.The third chapter discusses about function of the critical and aesthetic factors inside the construction of dystopia and explains them in detail,from which readers can feel the critical and aesthetic aspects of this literary genre that are closely related to the reality.Through the interpretation of the multi-layered meanings of the text and the open ending,the writing of Atwood's anti-utopia type is a dynamic communication,correcting the motionless utopian discourse,piercing in a way of criticism and deconstruction.The closure inside dystopia is worthy of an open eye to examine the writer's description of the human condition and the further exploration of the post-human's subjectivity in the future.