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representative of the social repression of the individual, lock Charlie's cell and throw away the key. Though Charlie regains control of the narrative in the final chapter, it is only to tell the reader that he has lost his struggle for individualism.
Biographical/Critical Introduction to Stephen King
Source: Chris Pourteau, The Individual and Society: Narrative Structure and Thematic Unity in Stephen King's Rage, in The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 27, No. 1, Summer, 1993, pp. 171 77.
Technohorror: The Dystopian Vision of Stephen King
Critic: James Egan
Source: Extrapolation, Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer, 1988, pp. 140–52
Criticism about: Stephen (edwin) King (1947-), also known as: Stephen (Edwin) King, Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Steve King, John Swithen, Steven King
Technohorror: The Dystopian Vision of Stephen King,
Stephen King has received considerable attention for his treatment of what Brian Ash calls the theme of a darkening world (Ash 86). [Faces of the Future, 1975] Less familiar is the fact that, from the beginning of his career, King has concerned himself with the complex implications of science and technology, so much so that the horror he evokes often seems inseparable from the dangers of imperious science and runaway machinery of many sorts. The anti-technological slant of King's writing links it with one of the primary preoccupations of twentieth-century science fiction. Like many avowed science fiction writers, moreover, King shares the modern dystopian notion that calamity rather than enlightenment, peace, and security will result from the erroneous utopian premises of the technoscientific world view. Beneath the mayhem which permeates King's fiction lie interrelated, troubling questions about the power, extent, and validity of science and rationalism in contemporary society.
King, then, may be read as more than simply a writer of gothic horror fables....
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