Political Conflicts: A Critical Analysis of Individual Vs Government in Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister

Abstract

The main goal of this novel is to examine how power has affected and destroyed people's personal lives in a nation. An authoritative society’s ultimate purpose is to have everyone follow its rigid rules and norms. The dominants employ social hierarchy as one of their tactics. However, it is ironic that society is under the power of a deeply corrupt political administration that gradually restricts people's freedoms. There, the government’s repression begins to subtly damage their lives. The protagonists' lives are constrained in every way by the system’s doctrine. In the past two centuries, writers in literature have been illustrated in their works. This paper attempts to disclose the bureaucratic control that the protagonist faced in Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister.