Dystopia Flashcards
Define Dystopia
a genre born from fear, exploring the humanity in an exaggerated reality experiencing suffering or injustice.
how is dystopia used in 1984
Dystopia refelcts a post world war society
- restoration is next step
- left with consequences of suffering, injustice and propaganda
- uisng the genre to urge poeple to remin vigilant
- explroing what will happen if we dont
how is dystopia represenetd in chidlren of men
dystopia refelcts how fear can be exploited into suffering
- exploring the refugee crisis and the path its on
- if humans expreince another tragdy how will the treat issues worsen
- used to opoint out harmful actions adn attitudes & the dangourous path to discrimation
what is the cultural conetxt of 1940s
world war 2 just finshed
- starlit russia, hitlers germnay
- fear and distrust of the government
- evloutions of society after servre susffrering & death
what is orwell context and how does it factor in
- was a writer for the BBC, spreading propghanda to india and spain
- faught in spainsh war, left due to disillusionment of stalians government
- was a political writer in controverisal time, fera of being supressed/wtached/controlled
- bleives in democratic socialism
what is the cultural context of 2000
- 911
- guantanimo bay
- refugee crisis (‘war on terror’)
- war in afghansistan
what is curon context and hwo does that shape the story
mexican immigrant
beliefs and values on immagration
feeling of being a refugee or outsider in a strange society, disconnected
curon as a mexican filmmaker exepreineced
who is the audince for 1984
poeople in western socity
showing the ablity of their governemnts to act just as abhorently
who is the aduince for chidlren of men
the 2000s+ public, askin them to show hmanity and snese of persepctive agsint fear in potetial cirises
what are some events that shape inetrpretaion since 1984
- conjugation of language
- technological (ai) inprmvments
- Russia’s regression and starting wars in states
- the propegation of propeghanda online (tiwtter/fake news)
what are events that shape current understanding of chidlren of men
- trump’s anti immigrant snetiments & fear mongering
- russia invasions and creating of refugees crisis
- palistine v isreale, powr of perseoctove adn cultural racsims and treamtment of partuies & reguess
what is orwells trying to acheive
orwell is trying to wran the public of
- government corruption,
- contraction and suppression
- importance of independant though
what is curon trying to achive
trying to warn of humanitys
- destrcution under targdedy,
- tendency of selfishness (dog eat dog world)
- importance of humane conditions
how does orwell use dystopian conventions
was a developing genre
- hyperbolic recreation of reality to point out society’s worst features
- showed suppression of lower classes to show their power
- hyper-survalince and its dangers
- everyman protagonist, who’s slightly disillusioned
- censorship of information, independant research, don’t trust gov
how does curon use/adapt dystopian conventions
more established and popularised genre with known conventions
- critical dystopia with open-ended conclusion
- utopia for those at top (who perpetuating this war & who’s benefiting)
- protagonist who’s given up only to be reinvigorated
- erosion of identity (this time of immigrants)
- fear of outside world, were the only safe one guys
- controlling forceful government, wont end here lads
how is lanagugae used in 1984
- newspeak, reduction of language to restrict thought
- double think, destroying meaning as independently known
- restriction of writers (orwell)
- if they can control language they can control reality
- mutability and reliability of language on history
- if control language/past –> control identity
how is cinemtaic convention used in COM
- uses long songle showts in tense sequences
- editing remiencint of war movies at times
- real english landmark used to heighten reality
what are similarties between the texts
- technologically developed, quiality of life reduced
- exaggerated class systems
- promised rebellion only to be a scam
- portag is morally grey,
- fear of international regime
- heterotopia found and exploited
what are key differnece bewteen the texts and why are they done
- dytsopia v critical dystoopua
- milteruy satte v totalitarnism
- governemnt evil & dsiembodied v nuanced in strife
- serious v comidic relif
- heavily survailed vs crime is rampant
how is use of cliche/expectations used in 1984
- cliche of happy ending exepcted & exploited
- good portagonist > morrally grey (lickig hand down sewer)
- rebeliian organisstion to fight curruption > anything is curtable/hopeless
how is use of cliche/expectations used in COM
- in dystopia hopless ending expected > sucessful
- love intrest brutally killed (shocked & shows charcter mortality)
- religious story > greater context
what is the effect of conventions on audience
audiences are suposed to feel
- hopeless
- angered
- invigorated
- called out/eye opneed
how has dystopia evolved over time
- utopia first introduced in 1516
- dystopia evolved after that
- concepts drawn from how far will people go to achieve utopia
- a more critical lens of humans and their tendency for ignorance
how has repsonses to dytopia shaped and been changed over time
what are key textual examples/quotes in 1984
- kicking hand down sewer
- to die hating th eprty is freedom
- raid of charrigtons shop (shookith)
- who controls the past controls the future
- war is peace, freeodm is slavery, ignonrnace is strength
- newspeak & doublthink
- oranges & lemon
- two minutes hate (redirection of population)
what are key textual examples/quotes in COM
- what do police know about juctice
- credits fade as laugh hehe
- ceasefire for child coming out
- jasper cabin being raided
- jluianne bieng shot
- one shot run to car
- art - symbolism and imaginary to show the theme
what are 1984 motifs/symbols/thems
- songs/rhyme (oranges & lemons)
- the paperweight (untouchable utopia)
- the golden country (hetertopia)
- memory hole (mutability of history)
- newspeak (genre & language evolutions)
- paradoxes/contradictions (language)
what are COM motifs/symbols/thems
- religious imagry.recrestion
- is nature/god the one savior to mans destruction
- symbolic art displayed around
- you can trust no one
