1984 The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell contains multiple themes. George Orwell wrote the book to show the dangers of totalitarianism. Through that main idea‚ many other ideas stemmed. The themes often relate directly back to settings and occurrences in 1984. The themes that stand out the most are as follows; the idea that history only truly exists in our minds‚ human consciousness is not something that can be immediately controlled‚ and that people are not always what they say they are.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ Dystopia is defined as the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state‚ often under the guise of being utopian. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control methods and various forms of active and passive intimidation. Works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans neglecting technology and humans individually and collectively trying to manage or not being able to properly manage with technology
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“They had hardly more understanding than a really intelligent dog‚ and besides nearly everything was too sacred for them to hear” (Burdekin 415): so are the words of the Knight in Katharine Burdekin’s 1937 dystopia‚ Swastika Nights as he reflects on the treatment of women within his patriarchal society. This quote is representative of the harsh patriarchal ideologies present in the 1900s when Swastika Nights was written. This patriarchal and domineering language present in Swastika Nights is a clear
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Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new society in which the population is plagued with sameness. Individuality is not accepted and an intellectual is outlawed. Instead of a fireman preventing fires‚ they are now seen as the flame thrower‚ destroying books which are considered evil because they make people stop and think. Everyone enjoys the same: nature and watching TV. With this plot‚ Bradbury raises the idea that man should think for himself as opposed to letting the government or the television do it
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“Community‚ Identity‚ Stability” are the three words that hang on a sign at the entrance of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. These words are supposedly the World State motto and the prime goals of this “utopian” society. In the beginning of Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley portrayed the setting as a utopia‚ an ideally perfect place‚ but is anything but perfect. This novel depicts a complete nightmare where society is dehumanized‚ uniformed‚ and chaotic. Brave New World intrigued
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twelve years old boy Jonas seems to be rather utopian. People live in families‚ they care about young and old‚ they have strict rules to keep discipline‚ and these rules do not seem to be too strict to make people suffer as it was in some other dystopias. Every person in this society has his or her role or
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the story of a young boy named Jonas living in a highly controlled community some time in the future. The novel fits into a larger genre of cautionary tales called "dystopian literature." A utopia is a society in which everything is perfect‚ so a dystopia is the opposite: everything has gone wrong. The novel explores Jonas’s encounter with memories of "the past‚" a time much like ours‚ in which people still had the freedom of choice. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness"
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Lois Lowry’s book‚ The Giver‚ fits into the thesis that dystopia and utopia are all dependent on perspective. The story takes place in a futuristic representation of the world where all knowledge of past wars‚ grief‚ rebellion and imbalance has been stored and only accessible to ‘The Giver’. Lying is forbidden
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never ends until they are completed or dead; that’s what they were created to do. The clones were created to fulfill the experiment of the people in power. And also the journey that the clones have to go through are not as harsh and bloody as other dystopias. Usually‚ the protagonist would go out of it’s way to make a change in the system that they are living in‚ which is their goal that they were able to decide on‚ it wasn’t given to them. The journey would usually involve having to fight or runways
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Three Important Scenes In The Hearth and the Salamander‚ the first in the trilogy of sections in Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag goes through a period of curiosity and discovery. This is when he takes a book from a house he is burning‚ unbeknown to the other workers. For the next day or two‚ he attempts reading this book as well as several others with Mildred‚ while he has “called in sick” to work. Subsequently‚ Captain Beatty suspects what Montag is really doing and pays a visit to his home.
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