dystopia
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Use this Powerpoint to broaden your understanding of the term "Dystopia"TRANSCRIPT
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DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY
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What is UTOPIA
• An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.• The word was first used in the
book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More
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What is Dystopia?
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How would you define Dystopia
• An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
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Popular Dystopian Stories
• 1984• Brave New World • Fahrenheit 451• The Hunger Games
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DYSTOPIC TRAITS
• Will will review 8 common traits seen in Dysopic literature
• Take notes on the chart provided.
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1. SOCIETY
• Definition: most impose severe social restrictions on community members
• Examples:
• social stratification: social class is strictly defined and enforced
• ruthless egalitarian
• repression of the intellectual
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2. SOCIAL GROUPS
• Definition: total absence of social groups other than the “state”
• Examples
• independent religion is notable because of omittance
• family is attacked: the hostility to motherhood
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3. NATURE• Definition: characters are isolated from the natural
world
• Example: conditioned to fear nature
4. Political Definition: Government asserts power over citizensExamples:- flawed in some way—portrayed as oppressive- filled with pessimistic views of the ruling class—rules with an “iron fist”
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5. ECONOMIC• Definition: state is in control of the economy
• Examples: -black market—items banned or seen as contraband
• - often privatization in businesses
6. The Hero: Definition: protagonist questions society—intuition
Example: Escape or Rebel
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7. CONFLICT
• Definition: societal group somewhere not under control of state
8. Climax: Definition: Emotional high
Example: can be unresolved
• - death or reeducation/conformity