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    Cinna Hunger Games Cinna is a first time stylist for the tributes in the Hunger Games. His simple attire and use of little amounts of makeup is unlike the rest of the people from the capitol. “It is common for citizens of the capitol to tattoo and dye their bodies in extravagant bright colors‚ as well as undergo plastic surgery to alter their appearances”(wikia). “The Capitol of Panem is a technologically advanced‚ utopian city where the nation’s most wealthy and powerful live” (Wikia). Cinna represents

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    and technophilia are evident in the film. Before the matrix existed humans sought better conditions to improve their society through technology. This technophilia‚ manifested by all of the movie’s characters‚ helps lead to the change from utopia to dystopia. In the 21st century the human race‚ marveling at the power of machines‚ continually refined technology. Eventually‚ the machines turned back on the humans and used human energy to power the machines. In one scene a character confirms‚ “Ignorance

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    the year 1984. Orwell was using this novel to predict the future of the world. He believed there would be three superpowers left and they’d each be holding part of the world. This book is placed in Air Strip one of Oceana‚ London. This Oceana is a dystopia‚ it is an overruling force many would consider evil. 1984 is a terrifying idealization of a possible control of the world. Orwell uses multiple themes‚ motifs‚ and symbols to scare the reader of a possible future. 1984 has an extensive arsenal

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    Throughout time Science Fiction writers have produced their work‚ using the concept of dystopia as a method to express their outlook and opinion on the issues within their existing societies‚ in which they are writing from. The writer delivers a message to the audience‚ educating them about the current contextual concerns and the possibility of the dystopias that are developed as a result. This is demonstrated in the novel Fahrenheit 451‚ written by Ray Bradbury and the film Gattaca‚ directed by

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    Privacy and information is manipulated‚ controlled‚ and used against people in the novels Oryx and Crake‚ and The Running Man. In Oryx and Crake‚ privacy and information is controlled by not letting anything or anyone in or out of the compounds. In the novel‚ commanding corporations took mankind on an unrestrained genetic engineering journey. In The Running Man‚ Privacy and information is manipulated and controlled by government ran TV stations. Government control is a problem in both books. In

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    There many different writing strategies used in “The One Who Walk Away From Omelas”‚ but the conflict is the one that best develops the passage. Will you ever gave up your child‚ to reach happiness? In this story‚ the society of Omelas sacrifices a child to reach utopia because that’s their tradition. Conflict is the problem that happens in this story. The author uses conflict to show the central idea. One example of how conflict shows happiness will never happen unless others are suffering is when

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    corrected‚ as do her own. In the second half of the poem‚ a new facet of the speaker’s attitude is displayed. In line 17‚ she wants to improve the ugliness of her "child" by giving him new clothes; however‚ she is too poor to do so‚ having "nought save homespun cloth" with which to dress her child. In the final stanza‚ the speaker reveals poverty as her motive for allowing her book to be sent to a publisher (sending her "child" out into the world) in the first place. This makes her attitude

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    for Eric Arthur Blair‚ and he was famous for his personnel vendetta against totalitarian regimes and in particular the Stalinist brand of communism. In his novel‚ 1984‚ Orwell has produced a brilliant social critique on totalitarianism and a future dystopia‚ that has made the world pause and think about our past‚ present and future‚ as the situation of 1984 always remains menacingly possible. The story is set in a futuristic 1984 London‚ where a common man Winston Smith has turned against the totalitarian

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    Among them being Sir Thomas More’s Utopia‚ which depicts an ideal state in nowhere and has been a prototype of many modern Utopias. But by the passage of time this notion of Utopia got subverted‚ the ideal state gave way tothe horror and nightmare of dystopia. In my paper I intend to trace both the Utopian and dystopian elements in William Golding’s novel Lord of the flies. This text tells the story of the journey of a group of innocent children‚ victims of a plane crash‚ and their struggle for survival

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    The giver What is a utopia? Is it a place where pain war and hunger does not exist? How do you describe a dystopia? In Jonas’ community‚ in the ‘Giver’ written by Lois Lowry ‚ he is living in the community where everything is the same‚ organised and pain free‚ basically he is living in a ‘Utopia’. For him everything is perfect the way it is but when he was chosen as the receiver of memory for the community he discovered dark secrets that lie ahead. In the giver book by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas is living

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