Answer: A quote form Beowulf, "Wiglaf obeys Beowulf's dying wish and goes down into the barrow, where he finds amazing piles of treasure, all of it rusting and decaying. He's able to see everything because of a glowing golden standard high overhead."
Because he was trying to replicate real life dystopias in real life.
Denotation, as connotation means the idea or feeling a word gives in addition to its literal meaning, while denotation means the literal meaning of the word in contrast to a feeling it may suggest.
