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Utopia/Dystopia/SC
Utopia:
Utopia is a term for an ideal society. It has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. The term is sometimes used pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve, and has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia. The term was taken a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, written about by Sir Thomas More as the fictional character Raphael Hythloday (translated from the Greek as "knowing in trifles") as possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.
The word comes from Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place" as well as εὖ, "good" or "well", and τόπος ["good place"]—the double meaning was probably intended.
Dystopia:
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.
Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia does not pretend to be utopian, while an anti-utopia appears to be utopian or was intended to be so, but a fatal flaw or other factor has destroyed or twisted the intended utopian world or concept.
Science Fiction:
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or Sci-Fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theater, and other media.
Taken from Wiki
Brave New World
Plot and Analyses: www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/
Themes:
- Community, Identity, Stability VS Individual Freedom
- Science as a means of control
- The threat of Genetic Engineering
- The Misuse of psychological conditinoning
- The pursuit of happiness carried to an extreme
- The cheapening of sexual pleasure
- The pursuit of happiness through drugs
- The threat of mindless consumption and mindless diversions
- The destruction of a family
- The denial of Death
- The oppression of individual differences
- What does such a system cost?
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