Masters Thesis

Shadow realm

In this Dystopic Factory-Dickensian setting, Naifi, the protagonist, is at the bottom rung of the social order. Naifi is an orphan and therefore property of the state; within this world, the Factories are workhouses where children are forced to contribute to the various state production needs by working and living within the Factories and producing: coal, wood, clothes, beds, food, etc. The Factory that Naifi lives in controls the city's coal production; therefore the children are used for menial labor as coal collectors, coal packagers, and chimney sweeps for the upper class. Naifi and the other orphans have no agency or control over their own lives within this world. Naifi has no power in the waking life. He lives at the will of his Overseers, under the gaze of the Watchers, and within the highly panoptic Factory. But, he begins to find that although they try to repress him at every angle, when he is asleep he has the control.

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