LORD OF THE FLIES – William Golding First extract: « The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat‚ and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages. Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath‚ and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing‚ ape-like
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George Orwell ’s 1984 is an exemplary work of dystopia. Although written in 1940s‚ 1984 is a vivid depiction of China during the Cultural Revolution and Soviet Union during the Elimination of Counterrevolutionaries. Dystopia came into being after the World War Ⅱ‚ when the world was at a loss about its future. Although the world was purged of fascism‚ personality cult and communist dictatorship arose to take its place.Dystopia is characterized by an authoritarian and totalitarian regime that oppresses
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but in this book‚ the society is exactly this. Being able to make your own choices is really important‚ most of us don’t realize it right now but it’s important to appreciate freedom. In the Giver‚ what may seem like a perfect society is actually a dystopia is because theres no individuality‚ you are assigned a family‚ and jobs were assigned as well. To begin with‚ individuality didn’t even exist in this community. Everything is conform‚ no one is allowed to know their own identity‚ and everyone’s
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promoted inequality‚ communism‚ imbalance of rights‚ etc. A word which can be used to describe this inequality is dystopia; a dystopian society is a place powered by fear in which there is a disparity of rights of the government and citizens of the nation. For example‚ Benito Mussolini made certain independent decisions which rendered Italy into a dystopian country. When one analyzes the dystopia in
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He wrote about how one can achieve a utopian society in his time. Utopia is a perfect world where everything is perfect and nothing scandalous can happen. It is a place that is impossible to create. There is always some type of dystopia in the world we live in. Dystopia is the exact opposite
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contributions. I will be analysing and comparing the texts commenting on visual codes‚ technical codes‚ language and mode of address‚ target audience and representations. Children of Men is set in the future‚ 2027 dystopia‚ part of the sci-fi genre. We are able to understand that this is a dystopia film by the colour variety‚ mostly browns‚ blacks and greys. These harmonious colours connotes depression‚ unhappiness‚ pain‚ war. The camera shots mostly mid-shots‚ long-shots panning and point of view shots
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audiences with three profound questions that are relevant to the modern context of society‚ which we have already seen take place. Blade Runner introduces the topic of human’s responsibility to the environment through the presentation of a futuristic dystopia (opposite of utopia “perfect society” therefore meaning “imperfect society”) in Los Angeles 2019‚ nine years from now! Blade Runner apprehends the ideas that futuristic technology will only be a means of commerce‚ causing the unethical and immoral
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Wall-E‚ dystopian societies work to alert the audience of current issues that‚ if not resolved‚ could negatively alter the world. While both societies appear farfetched‚ Wall-E’s prediction of Earth in 2805 is more plausible. To comprehend a dystopia‚ one must initially ask‚ what is a utopia? Purely gedankenexperiments‚ utopias are imagined idealistic societies in which every aspect of existence‚ from government‚ to relationships‚ to wealth‚ to material possessions‚ to education‚ to health‚
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When Wilson was getting torture‚ he kind of jumped into a state of mind that wasn’t his reality. In the journal “From Utopia to Dystopia: Levels of explanation and the politics of social psychology” it express how democracy is seen as an illusion in an implicit dystopia (Klein‚ p. 91). That the “free man” and his choice are false claims‚ that a society will be controlled regardless of any rights‚ because when people get rights they’ll have no
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Is Utopia Possible through Planning? Utopia is often used to describe a place in our imagination. Utopia is a virtual world in which we think everything will be perfect‚ everything would be planned and set out for all of our needs at any time‚ but that’s just our imagination. If we were to create a Utopia we would need a huge amount of the cites population to becomes neutral on what Utopia is to them. Is it possible for utopia to become true? Utopia would be possible if everyone just dropped their
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