Essay Prompt: At the start of George Orwell’s dystopia novel‚ Animal Farm‚ the animals set out to establish a perfect community‚ a “society of animals set free from hunger and the whip‚ all equal‚ each working according to his capacity‚ the strong protecting the weak.” However‚ by the end of the novel‚ we see that a very different society is actually formed. A cruel dictatorship rules: no animal can speak his mind; all animals work in hunger‚ pain‚ and gross inequality. In a brief two-page essay
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flavor of the content; they play an extremely crucial role in preventing the piece from turning bland. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is no less of a performance art; her language and use of quotations acting as props to the stage. In her book‚ Butler reinforces the belief
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A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia. The meaning of utopia is a perfect place. Therefore making a dystopia a nightmarish place with many things wrong with it. The book "1984" is based in a dystopian world in 1984. This is the future from when the book was written. Orwell has to use many ideas and very twisted thoughts and nightmares to create this world‚ which seems to become more like reality year by year. An example of the dystopia being created would be the weather note on the first line of
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Year 11‚ English Extension Essay ( 2 CORE texts and 1 RELATED text) What ideas do you see linking the texts you have studied through your exploration of Utopias and Dystopias. The novels Utopia by Thomas More and 1984 by George Orwell and short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut explore the Utopic and Dystopic genre through the structure and regulations of their societies. In Utopia‚ More provides us with a contemporary understanding of society and human nature‚ with an indepth study of
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The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions
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Butler’s "Gender Trouble‚" addresses the problems of gender distinction and the inherent flaws related to current modes of thought. Butler begins by explaining how she will question the gender hierarchy. She notes that current feminism seeks to define gender. However‚ this is problematic. The focus on defining gender and the perceived risks of failing to do so ignore the political issue that requires a distinction (2540). Gender itself is a performance - an artificial attempt that is accepted as
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celebrating? In “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”‚ Judith Butler explores what it really means to come out and claim an identity. Although Butler acknowledges the importance of coming out for purposes of personal affirmation and community organization‚ she is ultimately skeptical in the coming out process because it means conforming to the discourses of oppressive powers and because the meaning of the identities themselves are ambiguous. Butler recognizes that coming out can be advantageous for many
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James Butler hickok‚ better known as wild Bill Hickok ‚ was a well known folk hero of the old west. He is best known for his work across the frontier as a drover‚ Wagonmaster‚ soldier‚ spy‚ scout‚ lawman‚ gunfighter‚ gambler‚ and showman. He earned a great deal of fame in his time‚ most of it because of his over exaggerated and often outlandish stories that were fabricated up of unrealistic circumstances. Which leads us to wonder what events of his life are real or just fantastic stories. It is a
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Oceania is a State of Dystopia In George Orwell’s 1984‚ the citizens of Oceania are forced to endure life in a dystopic state. Life is brutal and anything but merry. One constantly feels anxious as the threat of torture or death is always near‚ if one was to break one of the Party rules. For characters like Winston and Julia‚ who are against Big Brother and who realize the true extent of their horrible lives‚ life is unbearable. Exploitation‚ corruption‚ and dehumanization are evident
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are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly” (“Dystopia”). The animals rebel against their farmer‚ Mr. Jones‚ in an attempt to live life freely without the rule of a human. However‚ a pig named Napoleon takes over‚ and as the novel progresses we can see that he “is worse than the humans‚ and thus that the animals would be better off under benign human control” (Fitzgerald 3). The farm becomes a dystopia because there is mass poverty‚ the animals have no freedoms‚ and violence
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