Alex Aroyo Blog Post #5: On The Beach

I've chosen to use the novel On The Beach by Nevil Shute as my primary text for the research paper. It's a post-apocalyptic account after World War III  of the remaining survivors off the southern coast of Australia awaiting certain death from an oncoming radioactive cloud. I'm still in the process of finishing the novel, but I'd like to take a psychoanalytic approach to writing this involving the remarkable civility the characters instill themselves with under the inevitable fate they face. From what I've gathered thus far my analysis will explore a unique variety of dystopian society and contrast certain Freudian normalities we tend to see in an average dystopia.