Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Sivas Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Letters Journal of Social Sciences C. XLV HAZİRAN 2021 Sayı: 1 Vol. XLV JUNE 2021 Issue: 1 Makalenin Geliş Tarihi: 15 Nisan 2021 Makalenin Kabul Tarihi: 15 Haziran 2021 THE ROLE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND APOCALYPSE IN THE DYSTOPIAN FICTIONS: MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN AND ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD DİSTOPİK KURGULARDA BİLİM, TEKNOLOJİ VE KIYAMETİN ROLÜ: MARY SHELLEY'NİN FRANKENSTEIN’I VE ALDOUS HUXLEY'İN CESUR YENİ DÜNYA’SI Selçuk Tatar * Abstract This study aims to focus on the concepts of science, technology, and apocalypse in dystopian novels. Dystopian fiction has lately become an important literary genre within speculative fiction in English and Contemporary World Literature. It is not possible to think of dystopian fiction apart from the utopian tradition, which has a long oral and written history. Therefore, In this study, after focusing on the similarities and differences of dystopian and utopian fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, both of which contributed to the development of dystopian fiction as a subgenre of science fiction, will be discussed separately. Actually, it will be argued not only how both authors deal with science, technology, and apocalyptic elements in their novels but also how they criticize their own societies through the dystopian vision of these works. Moreover, the societies depicted by Shelley and Huxley will be debated to demonstrate the visible or invisible ties to the 'authority', which is thought to be the potential perpetrator of the feelings of fear, suffering and helplessness that permeate the societies. Keywords: Technology, Science, Apocalypse, Frankenstein, Brave New World. * Doktora Öğrencisi., Ege Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, selcuktatar@hotmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-2569-1584