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    animals and it is also what is missing to a large extent in Orwell’s “1984” and Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”. The futility of relationships in these works is part of what makes the worlds in which they are based seem so bereft of hope and consequently‚ dystopia in nature. In Orwell’s vision of humanity’s future‚ the only truly acceptable thing to ‘love’ is Big Brother. The Party restricts all other love so as to break down the ties between family‚ friends and lovers whilst transferring this loyalty to

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    Fahrenheit 451 and The Time Machine live a care free life‚ thus believing that their societies are a utopia‚ through the societies’ excessive uniformity‚ futility of ambition‚ regular conflict and inhuman characteristics‚ their societies are ironically a dystopia. UNIFORMITY Though it would be expected of future societies to be able to express themselves separate of others and move towards individuality‚ in these novels people have very little alteration of personality and sometimes appearance. The

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    HUMAN NATURE: ARE PEOPLE GOOD OR BAD? From the time when humanity was able to believe in it‚ Utopia has existed as a mere word‚ thought or principle. It is a place that is hoped for‚ and is also a society that was and is apparently deemed to be possible‚ or is it? The Mirriam-Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an imaginary and indefinitely remote place of ideal perfection in laws‚ government and social conditions." It doesn’t exist. It cannot exist because of our nature‚ our practices‚ and our

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    Jhoan Aguilar Mrs. Armistead English III H (4) October 24‚ 2013 The Exhort of Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury created the novel Fahrenheit 451 as a way to admonish future generations against social and economic trends that would emerge during the twentieth century. I. Introduction II. Reasons behind novel A. World events B. Personal events III. Economic trends of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A. The economics of consumerism B. Economic effects on society IV. Social trends

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    critical literacy gives students an opportunity to think deeply about the ideologies that underlie the text. Dystopia texts are often developed to criticise a trend‚ social norm or a political system. The texts 1984‚ V for Vendetta and The Lottery all present notions of criticism toward a political system or a trend. The fourth text‚ the students’ choice‚ has to be one of non-fiction dystopia. This extends the students thinking further and creates a deeper meaning as look into reality. The unit has

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    Fantasies In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the actions of the conditioned characters in the novel serve to prove that the Brave New World itself would never attain it’s goal of happiness. Within the first introduced “Utopian” society‚ there were various forms of conditioning (and lack there of). This caused a disturbance within the society itself‚ albeit it was a minor disturbance initially‚ later it grew into a bigger problem that caused a riff in the mechanical order of the civilization. Outside

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    versus low-tech‚” described Hallman in his work‚ In Utopia. Utopias and dystopias show the contrast between two polar ideas depending on the point of view of the person. Essentially‚ somebody’s utopia is another person’s dystopia‚ which proves that no two people are completely alike. So‚ the minute differences between two peoples’ preferences could lead to a stark divide that is enough to create each person’s utopia and dystopia. The photograph submitted captured a worm’s eye view of a surveillance

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    One versus the Rest Through a story about a society of people who have lost touch with their humanity and history while allowing themselves to become victims of propaganda and censorship. These people have become mindless and naïve. The science fiction film Fahrenheit 451 was directed by François Truffaut. This film predicted that the future is to become greatly dependent on technology implications for immediate happiness. The fact that the growth of television and technology has driven the people

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    1. What is the significance of the word "GATTACA" (hint: think about why the letters A‚T‚C‚ and G were highlighted in all the names during the opening credits) They are the bases in the human genome. The movie is trying to emphasize the significance these four letters‚ each representing a base pair in the human genome‚ will have in the theme throughout the movie. Gattaca is the name of the space agency in the film. The name is based on the initial letters of the four DNA nitrogenous bases: guanine

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    Gattaca presents a world destroyed by the pursuit of perfection.’ Do you agree? * What is the pursuit of perfection? * How is the world destroyed? * What is gattaca? 1) Everyone is the same there are no individuals – the people are sexless‚ no personality 2) The pursuit of perfection leaves people believing that their genetic make up is what lets them achieve their ambitions‚ they have low self esteem. People who fail to achieve perfectionism can suffer from a lot of mental pressure;

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