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A 7 page research paper that analyzes Marge Piercy's utopian vision of the future, her novel Woman on the Edge of Time (1979) in regards to the sociological issues that it addresses. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a societys failings and possible solutions through fictional writing. Mores Utopia, Jonathan Swifts satire Gullivers Travels, Dickens novels of Victorian England, and Sinclairs The Jungle, to name just a few
works, all addressed sociological problems with fiction. Marge Piercys Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) is in this tradition. Through her insightful and provocative novel, Piercy addresses quite a
few of the problems that plague todays world, and she, like More, offers possible solutions via a vision of an Utopian society. The following discussion will examine three sociological
themes that Piercy dramatizes in her novel. These themes are: the sociological problems intrinsic to life at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale; the gender and sexual
roles that define what it is to be "male" or "female" in society; and the threat to humanism that lies in over-dependence on technology. The choice of these
three themes is not meant to imply that these are the only themes in this densely compact and multi-layered novel, as there are many more. However, these themes are representative
of the thematic structure that Piercy employs in this novel. Part of the novel concentrates Connies life in the here-and-now, prior to her vision of the future. In this
section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For example, Connie loses the love of her life, Claud, to
hepatitis. First of all, appropriate medical care might have Clauds life, but then, Connies grief sends her into a "frenzy of alcohol and downers" (Piercy, 1976, . 53). In
her grief, Connie neglects her daughter and this comes to the attention of social workers. Connie not only loses her daughter to foster care, but is also institutionalized herself.
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