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    creation of the windmills and the leader in the victory at the Battle of Cowshed. Eventually‚ the citizens of the Animal Farm begin to accept this change (and more alterations to the Seven Commandments to come)‚ leading to the final stage to the dystopian

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the Divergent by Veronica Roth shows a great example of a dystopian society. A dystopian society‚ a society where everything is frightening and unpleasant. Katniss and Tris is living in a world where humanity doesn’t exist‚ corrupted governments taking control‚ life there isn’t easy. Symbolism‚ the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In The Hunger Games‚ Katniss showed that the woods represent her survival and the world beyond District 12. In the

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    wow this is great! It was given to us as a class novel and we had to read it over time but me being me had it finished in a day and a half. Usually I read dystopian books which are books set in the future in an ‘ideal’ world but in reality it is far from that. So when I found out we would be reading noughts and crosses which is set in a dystopian society I was delighted ‚ but unlike books I have read in the past which have echoes of real life intertwined with them this book really hit home to think

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    set our own ending. 10. Bradbury’s style of writing is different. All of his writing is very symbolic and uses a lot of figurative language‚ and it makes us interpret the story in different ways. 11. Mildred and Clarisse were both from the dystopian society. Mildred was a model citizen in her society because she never cared about anything and never cared and when she knew what her husband had done she turned him in. Clarisse was antisocial because she always asked why. She actually thought about

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    In George Orwell’s 1984‚ the world has been portrayed in a poverty-stricken dystopian society with three different nations waging a perpetual war. In the movie The Matrix directed by Lana Wachowski‚ the world is machine controlled. Humans are kept in a deep sleep‚ without realizing that their reality is false. They are similar because both depict the absolute control that a government has over its own people and the control over reality. They are different in that Winston’s true reality was eventually

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    a dark dystopian environment where humans are either completely overrun by or submerged in their own technology: James Cameron’s Terminator; Alex Proyas’ I‚Robot; Steven Spielberg’s Artificial Intelligence; Andy Wakowski’s The Matrix; etc. Conventionally‚ these films are perceived today as impossible realities of science fiction. However‚ both media theorist Douglass Rushkofff and futurist Ray Kurzweil present a picture of the future that is not characteristically far from the dystopian depictions

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    Response Essay Dystopian works force us to look at social problems because they exaggerate issues to get the viewer’s attention. By seeing where social problems can or will lead to in the future‚ people pay more attention to what is going on and they feel the need to do something about it. The song‚ “The Sound of Silence‚” by Paul Simon is about being revealed to the light. Seeing what one was never realized before. It relates well to the allegory of the cave by Plato and the book Fahrenheit 451

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    creating a censored and bookless society which led Montag to rebel against the government. All of the chapters will show and explain how Montag went from looking at his society through utopian eyes and realizing his whole world has been a dystopian one all along. In this chapter of The Hearth & The Salamander‚ Bradbury introduces most of the characters . He begins when Montag meets a girl named Clarisse. She was his next-door neighbor. Clarisse is classified as an odd person. She

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    The dystopian book 1984 by George Orwell was first published 1949. The author predicts that by the year 1984‚ the superstate Oceania that society now lives in will be completely controlled by an omniscient government. The Party in 1984 controls the nations of Oceania; consequently‚ strictly controlling all elements of the peoples lives. 1984 is an exemplary albeit incomprehensible example of a dystopian society. Winston is the main protagonist in the novel. He and everyone else in the society

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    In a world ravaged by human failings of greed‚ ignorance‚ lies‚ cowardice‚ and needless aggression‚ a new dystopian societynhas emerged. From the brink of debacle‚ humanity has reorganized itself into five factions that uphold and live by a single core value. Those that believed the world failed because of malicious‚ selfish greed formed the faction of Abnegation; sworn to remain selfless and serve the needs of others. Those that believed the collapse was due to ignorance pledge themselves to the

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