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Brainstorm and write down what your perfect world would include. If the world was 100% created around your happiness and no one else’s, what would it look like? Today’ Warm Up

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Take good notes, as we will have a QUIZ over this information on Friday

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Page 1: Brainstorm and write down what your perfect world would include. If the world was 100% created around your happiness and no one elses, what would it look

Brainstorm and write down what your perfect world would include. If the

world was 100% created around your happiness and no one else’s, what

would it look like?

Today’ Warm Up

Page 2: Brainstorm and write down what your perfect world would include. If the world was 100% created around your happiness and no one elses, what would it look

Discuss Mood/Tone in “TWCSF”Prezi

Dystopian Study GuideIntro to Dystopian Lit. (Take Cornell Notes)Brainstorm for Constructed Response

Agenda

Page 3: Brainstorm and write down what your perfect world would include. If the world was 100% created around your happiness and no one elses, what would it look

Take good notes, as we will have a QUIZ over this information on Friday

Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics

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A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect with respect to politics, laws, customs, and conditions.

Utopia

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A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control.

Dystopia

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Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

Dystopia (cont.)

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Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.

Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.

A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.

Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.

Characteristics of a Dystopian Society

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Citizens have a fear of the outside world.

Citizens live in a dehumanized state.

The natural world is banished and distrusted.

Citizens conform to uniform expectations.

Individuality and dissent are bad.

The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.

Characteristics of a Dystopian Society (Con.t)

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•Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Examples include Minority Report.

•Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. Examples in film include Idiocracy and V for Vendetta.

Types of Dystopian Controls

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• Technological control: Society is controlled by technology—through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Examples include The Matrix, The Terminator, and I, Robot.

•Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government. Examples include Pleasantville.

Types of Dystopian Controls

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•Often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.

•Questions the existing social and political systems.

•Believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.

•Helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.

The Dystopian Protagonist

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Make a list of all the movies, books, video games, comics that you can think of that are dystopian.

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