Yirminci ve yirmi birinci yüzyıl karşı-ütopyalarında kadın karakterlerin yansıması

This thesis analyses the impact of the feminist dystopian writing on female protagonists based on a comparative study of one British dystopian novel by Angela Carter Heroes and Villains, one Canadian dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale, and one American dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins; The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. This thesis aims to show how the female characters in feminist dystopian writing sequentially evolve into brave and hopeful women in literature. The introduction presents utopia, dystopia, male and female-written dystopian writings in general terms. The first chapter offers the viewpoint of the passive female protagonist Marianne in Angela Carter's Heroes and Villains and explains that she accepts the hopeless point of view. Thus, she is a female character who is able to survive in this hopelessness. The second chapter suggests Offred's point of view in Margaret Atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale. She greets the dystopia , and the character idealizes for a better world outside the dystopia that she lives in. Yet, she ends up in "nowhere" by escaping from that dystopia. The third chapter analyses the trilogy of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay in terms of the female protagonist's perspective showing how the protagonist Katniss becomes the dystopian heroine. She brings her dystopia's end and turns it into a utopia instead at the end of the book which distinguishes her from the other protagonists. The thesis focuses on these three feminist dystopias with an aim to show that the female protagonists in dystopias written by women are gradually becoming more hopeful in literature in accordance with feminist authors' reactions to the struggles in life.