The Anti-utopia and The White Disease

The principal aim of this thesis is a definition of fundamental features occur in utopia and dystopia literary genre. There are six specific features - language, time, space, topicality or present, system and order. On the basis of these elements we analyze the drama The White Disease by Karel Čapek. The main purpouse is to definite the utopian and dystopian features that are found in The White Disease. Key word: utopia, dystopia, The White Disease, Karel Čapek, language, time, space, system, topicality