Distopias ideais: o poder dos meios de comunicação em 1984 e V de Vingança

Abstract

This work aims to comprehend the role that the communication media play inside the fictional universe of the 1984 novel, by George Orwell, and of the V for Vendetta comic book, by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's and Marshall McLuhan's communication theories were applied to the stories to help in the analyses of the influences of the communicative processes in both dystopic constructions. Is sought to understand how the communication media can serve as ascension and maintenance tools to totalitarian political regimes. It was used the ideal types methodology of Max Weber. An approximation was made between the two fictional narratives and the historical reality, which made possible an evaluation of the validity of the communicational theories themselves starting from fiction as a model of the real.