Premium Content White Noise: A Real Dystopia?
By Anonymous - March 25, 2009
Don DeLillo’s post-modern novel White Noise examines the relativity of meaning in a consumer and media-controlled society. A classic dystopia comments on society’s reliance on the media, and in White Noise, it creates character identity instability and hyperreality. However, White Noise does not completely portray the conventional dystopia; the…
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