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Black Market High Status
936 wordsSerena Joy is the most powerful female presence in the hierarchy of Gileadean women; she is the central character in the dystopian novel, signifying the foundation for the Gileadean regime. Atwood uses Serena Joy as a symbol for the present dystopian society, justifying why the society of Gilead arose and how its oppression had infiltrated the lives of unsuspecting people. Atwood individualists the character of Serena Joy, as her high status in the society demands power and the domination over t...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4,448 wordsA society is, by definition, a group of people with similar interests, beliefs, and ways of life, residing and perpetuating in a specific area. Societies include people, who are organized into families, tight-knit groups of friends, and acquaintances. Individuals within a society possess certain religious affiliations, and are associated with specific institutions and workplaces. This idea of a community allows human beings to act upon their social predispositions, while still submitting to lead...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
737 wordsWhat is a utopia? Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines utopia as an imaginary and indefinitely remote place; a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, gov-ernment, and social conditions; an impractical scheme for social improvement. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley creates a dystopia (which Webster defines as an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives) by predicting a pos-sible utopia after many generations. Aldous Huxley analyzes how the utopia dege...
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Live Their Lives National Bank
1,590 words"You think that youve got forever to someday make your life mean something, but you dont This is your life, and its ending one minute at a times only after weve lost everything that we are free to do anything. " (Palahniuk, 76) The meaning of life, a question that has plagued humans since the beginning of time, no one really knows what the true answer is, however, people try to live their lives to find this "meaning, " to live their lives with no regrets. Throughout a persons quest to self disco...
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Brave New World Iron Curtain
646 wordsImagine what the world would be like if we were all "under the iron curtain. " In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present- day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda. " Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and allusions to prominent political dictators, Huxley bitterly satirized totalitarian propaganda and political...
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Jorge Luis Borges William Gibson
1,222 wordsFantasy paper/Science Fiction Perhaps no theme has so attracted the febrile imaginings of postmodern scholars as the creations - and the technological culture - of cyberpunk literature. Cyberpunk science fiction is the apotheosis of post-modernism, in one assessment, dystopian anticipation, in the lights of another, and the only art systematically dealing with the most crucial political, philosophical, moral, and cultural issues of our day, as envisioned by a third. (Schroeder, 331). For such fe...
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Nineteen Eighty Four York Harcourt Brace
3,799 wordsOrwell &# 038; Marx Animalism vs. Marxism? Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism, quotes George Orwell in the preface to the 1956 Signet Classic edition of Animal Farm. The edition, which sold several millions copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. ? It is in Animal Farm, written in 1944 but not published until after World War Two in 1945, which Orwell offers a political...
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Republic Of Gilead Handmaids Tale
1,122 wordsWhen Sir Thomas Moore first used the term utopia to describe an imaginary island, little did he know it would turn into a literary genre. The term comes from two Greek terms, eu-topos, meaning the good place and uo-topos, meaning no place. In The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood wishes to give a portrayal of a future dystopia, ridiculing the utopian customs. Wishing to turn the utopian dream into a nightmare, authors with Atwood's similar ideas, have focused on the negative aspects in longing for...
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Random House Dictionary Random House Utopia
667 wordsUtopia vs. Dystopia What is utopia? According to The Random House Dictionary, utopia is a place or state of political or social perfection based on the novel Utopia by Thomas More (Random House 976). Most people can not picture this definition because the real world is not as perfect as Thomas More describes in Utopia. We live in a society not only containing freedom, wealth, and happiness, but also having, disease, crime, and poverty. This? dystopian? society may not share the all glory of Utop...
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