Blind-Spot of Religion in Elton's Blind Faith

Abstract

Throughout the centuries people have been dreaming about the ideal society in which all citizens are happy and prosperous. The Biblical paradise or mythical Arcadia is well-known idyllic places, which created the image of perfect civilization. This project focuses on Ben Elton's Blind Faith a story of victory for religion and distrust of science. The plot of the story hovers around the awakening of Trafford Sewells, the main character, who dislikes sharing and discovers that he enjoys having secrets. He manages to connect to an underground network of peoples who read books, a band activity under the religious despotism known as Wembley laws. This project describes the degraded society projecting contemporary aspiration to excessively share details of lives in social networks, a concern of dystopia. The planet is flooded after global warming which melts the polar ice caps, people disenchanted by science turn to religion for explanation of the disaster. In this society sharing is valued above all, and privacy is considered as dangerous perversion where no one can have secrets. It is necessary to share and to blog videos in this panoptical society. The excrement of the religion and its haunting wembley laws in buttressing the agency and the characters to pit forward skeptic towards religious view, ends in the catastrophe of Trafford,chantorria and Caitlin, which justifies the relevance of the implementation of theoretical modality of dystopia.