An Analysis of Old Complaints Revisited from the Perspective of Dystopia

Abstract

I, etcetera is written by Susan Sontag in 1970s, and Old Complaints revisited is a story of this book. This story is about a member of an organization who decides to withdraw from this organization. Thus, she is trapped in the dilemma of self-conquest and resistance to collective coercion. This paper analyzes the story of Old Complaints Revisited from the perspective of dystopia. This paper mainly analyzes it from three aspects: the conception of utopia, the construction of utopia, and the maintenance of utopia. In the story, the process of the narrator’s joining the organization to finally deciding to withdraw from the organization also maps the process of the utopia in her her mind from conception to final collapse.