“How does Collins use the genre of dystopian fiction to make a comment on contemporary society?” Suzanne Collins uses dystopian fiction to warn us of the many things that are wrong in the present world. The Hunger Games is based on a depressing world which we would all hate to live in. Collins brings to our attention some of the problems we have in today’s world such as our obsession with looking perfect‚ how we waste our time‚ and how selfish we are. In our society we waste our time on video
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This part of the research project is an opportunity to focus your thinking about your topic and thesis. Using the techniques we’ve discussed in class (such as brainstorming and freewriting)‚ develop a draft research question and thesis that will help guide your research in the forthcoming stage of the project. You may wish to do that brainstorming around textual elements we have discussed in class–setting‚ plot‚ character‚ diction etc.– or look at how critical contexts such as postcolonial theory
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BETHANY SCHOOL 57 Camino Real Rd. Pilar Village‚ LPC NOVEL ANALYSIS (1984- GEORGE ORWELL) Submitted by: Submitted to: Bacolod‚ Jon Clare M. Ms. Razel Borromeo III-Magnanimity A.Y. 2013-2014 In partial fulfillment to the requirement of the subject ENGLISH III I. AUTHOR’S BIO NOTE (25 June 1903-21 January 1950) George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal‚ India‚ in 1903‚ into a middle-class family. The son of a British civil servant‚ Orwell was brought to
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BROTHER IN THE LAND Character Sketch of Rhodes In the play script “Brother in the Land” by Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline‚ Rhodes is portrayed as a sadistic P.E. teacher who is an active member of the MASADA and participates voluntarily in tasks which are set up‚ in order to overthrow the Civil Defense Team. Unfortunately at the end he turns out to be a selfish person who deceives the MASADA. Rhodes proves to be a good strategist as he prepares the students and tells them about
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Imagine a world where books where illegal and if someone gets caught with them the books would be set on fire. The most common theme found in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is the idea of censorship. In this dystopian society Montag‚ the protagonist in the story if a fireman‚ not like one we would think of today someone that puts out fires. Montag’s job is to start them; firemen in this society are to start fires to houses that contain books in them. But If the same laws applied in our society there would
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source alone we demonstrate how society has always needed an order and power: Government. Dystopian: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Lord of the Flies‚ a novel that is realistic is the fact that it parallels with the real world. The moral that Golding was taking example of was the evil inside all of us. He created this novel to express dystopia‚ which was how boys were stuck on an island and how they created
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Even though the government makes people believe that they have freedom of choice and that they are in total control of their lives‚ the dystopian society in ‘Fahrenheit 451‘ resembles the present day world because people have stopped questioning the government mainly due the fact that they have stopped reading which makes them ignorant and their lack of knowledge and their inability to think makes the government’s job easier to control and manipulate them through fear . Another reason why
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help in shaping the person’s future. In Margaret Atwood’s “the Handmaids Tale”‚ certain individuals in a dystopian society go against the government’s rules. The government of Gilead is a theocratic government that removes the rights from the women and creates a strict caste system. The residents in Gilead are supposed to follow the rules or else they would
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Throughout my life‚ I have read about utopian societies that have become dystopias. I have been exposed to totalitarian led communities‚ such as the society run in the novel 1984. Also‚ history provides me with examples of incidents that have happened from nations that have been ruled by a dictatorship. War‚ revolutions‚ and disdain for social hierarchies are all products of the previously mentioned societies. Human beings like to have control over their own life; however‚ some groups of individuals
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March 5‚ 2013 A Dystopian Masterpiece In his short story‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ author Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr. tells about a society‚ or America‚ in the future being ruled by a totalitarian government‚ whose number one law‚ is equality. Everyone is treated equally by law; no one is smarter‚ faster‚ stronger or more beautiful than another. The people of the society are forced to conform to handicaps by wearing weights around their neck or masks to hide a beautiful face. Vonnegut shows how far people are
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