Date of Award
Spring 2025
Document Type
Thesis
Submission Date
May 2025
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Abstract
This thesis intends to embrace conversations about technological advancements and create space for examining the ways in which popular technologies of the 2020s are the beginning of a dangerous future for marginalized bodies if gone unchecked and under-regulated. This paper investigates the ways in which modern forms of technology are at risk of mimicking the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and the film Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde dystopias and argues the need for more conscious consumerism of technology and media alike to acknowledge the ways in which the control of women’s bodies is a common trend and a harmful aspect to these advances that will hold real-world consequences of exploitation, violence, and disproportionate control of autonomy and self-determination.
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Julia Mason
Recommended Citation
Pack, Taylor, "FICTIONAL PROPHECIES: HOW KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO AND OLIVIA WILDE’S DON’T WORRY DARLING FORESHADOW THE THREATS OF BIOTECH AND METAVERSE REALITIES" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 45.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general/45