context

Question 1

industry, science, technology (pre 1900-1945): a period of…

Answer 1

rapid scientific advances
new developments in technology
industrial mindset

Question 2

industry, science, technology (pre 1900-1945): key fears

Answer 2

genetic engineering
pharmaceuticals
machines taking over the world
man serving machine rather than machines serving man
globalisation

Question 3

industry, science, technology (pre 1900-1945): cultural context

Answer 3

artists changed their point to focus from one of classic beauty to one of industrial design
musicians experimented with atonality and dissonance
movies were being made which showed futuristic dystopias

Question 4

communism and the cold war, wwii and vietnam (1945-1980): a period of…

Answer 4

fear and communism and red scare
focus on a minute social trend, extrapolating it to an extreme level and highlighting the consequences this extreme social tendency would take

Question 5

communism and the cold war, wwii and vietnam (1945-1980): key fears

Answer 5

literary censorship by the government
changes to social structure
suppression of freedom of expression
tyrannical manifestation
conformity of society - downfall or diversity
socialistic in nature
television - mass-marketing / standard telecasts throughout nation
world war ii - antagonists are very clear nods to nazi germany
moving into vietnam era, the unknown or alien very clearly reminds us of the ‘charlie’ (viet cong - vietnamese communists) we cannot see, but know is there

Question 6

apocalypse and environmental dystopianism (1980-present): a period of…

Answer 6

threats from machines, genetic manipulation and gender discrimination

Question 7

apocalypse and environmental dystopianism (1980-present): key fears

Answer 7

social upheaval
economic collapse
zombies
disease
biological warfare
focus on bands of survivors / individual
set in the near future

Question 8

what now affects how we read and receive dystopian literature?

Answer 8

covid-19 pandemic

Question 9

what dystopian novels fall under the industry, science and technology (pre 1900-1945) period

Answer 9

the time machine: h.g. wells (1895)
brave new world: aldous huxley (1932)

Question 10

what dystopian novels fall under the communism and the cold war, wwii and vietnam (1945-1980) period

Answer 10

nineteen eighty-four: george orwell (1949)
fahrenheit 451: ray bradbury (1953)
a clockwork orange: antony burgess (1962)
the drowned world: j g ballard (1962)

Question 11

what dystopian novels fall under the apocalypse and environmental dystopianism (1980-present) period

Answer 11

the handmaid’s tale: margaret atwood (1985)
memoirs of a survivor: doris lessing (1974)
the children of men: p d james (1992)
the road: cormac mccarthy (2006)