The future of the individual: The relationship between the collective, the individual, free will, and violence in 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Brave New World,' and 'Ender's Game'

This thesis is the prologue and first three chapters of an unfinished novel manuscript preceded by a critical introduction. The critical introduction examines the relationship between the collective, the individual, and free will as displayed by violence in three science fiction novels. It begins by explaining social science fiction and how this type of literature contributes to the reader's understanding of contemporary society. The introduction continues by explaining the common binary between the individual and society as presented in science fiction and how violence is often used to explore this binary. After introducing these concepts, the introduction analyzes the relationship between violence, the collective, the individual, and free will in Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Huxley's Brave New World, and Card's Ender's Game. The introduction proposes that this complex relationship remains ambiguous in futuristic novels as a way of encouraging the reader to grapple with the relationship as a means of avoiding a dystopian future or achieving a more utopian vision.;The unfinished novel manuscript that follows the introduction examines the relationship between violence, the collective, the individual, and society in a futuristic setting. Through an exploration of a world without real mass scale violence, the novel interrogates the relationship violence has to the other three concepts.