Impact of interrelation of ecology and dystopia on fictionalization process: The Windup Girl and The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, and The Drowned World and The Drought by J. G. Ballard

Ecology and dystopia can be counted among the most reflective genres in literature through which reader have the opportunity to see the consequences of human deeds on nature manifestly. Even though they are commonly analyzed as different branches of literary works, they can be regarded as the parts of an intermingled unity since they portrait the possible incidents in the near future caused by human action. In addition to that the relationship between ecology and dystopia makes it possible to identify and classify the contemporary novel better. In fact, this identification and classification make it easier to observe the impacts of the careless activities of human-centered life on earth. In that respect, this thesis offers a wide examination on the field of ecology and an in-depth research on the dystopia. Furthermore, this work will contribute to the field with brief and clear information on ecology and dystopia and their impact on fictionalization process. In other words, this study aims to put forward significant information on the effects of the relationship between ecology and dystopia on contemporary narrative. The influences of this link on the fictionalization process of the contemporary novel will be illustrated through four novels; The Windup Girl and The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, and The Drowned World and The Drought by J.G. Ballard. Finally, these books will be handled under these subtitles; character; human and nature, and setting; time and place.