other dystopias Flashcards
(6 cards)
Iron heel - 1908
Russian tensions, industrial revolution, 6 years before ww1 - political tensions
Societal mass movement (Mccarthyism) a memior with facts added in.
‘Its the quite before the storm’
City of endless night - 1920
Rickets inslum in london, ecomony boomed, end of ww1, lenon in charge of russia
Perpetual darkness has taken over due to the earths axiel tilt, the people want the bombing to continue
‘Neither they nor the birds had brought back a single word of what lay beneath the armed and armoured roof’ - north korea isolation
We - 1924
totalitarian state made of glass for survaillence, run by logic and reason. Alienty tone superior to us - effective doctrine, freedoms are negative
control of sex/reproduction - decree 770
Russian eugenics programme (1920’s -40s) 1 child policy - freedom is murder
‘The state forabde in those days the murder of one person, but it did not forbid the killing of millions slowly and by half’
Brave new world - 1932
Huxley knew orwell, eugenics, cold war, stalin in charge, tension of hitler coming to power, tv invented 1927, wall street crash depression, first wave of feminsim
- Inteligence based heiarchy, advancments of reproductive technology
‘Community, identity, stability’ - link to 1984 ‘Fertilising room’ Have more sexual freedom as animals then humans
Farenheit 451 - 1953
- Temperarture paper burns
marcarthyism, stalin dead, civil rights movement, ww2 ended , cold war, korean war - books burned (modern day america) protagonist is ‘fireman’ eventually quits
‘It was a pleasure to burn’ - link to 1984 ‘he worked at the ministry of truth where he altered historical records’
A clockwork orange - 1962
- cuban misile crisis, cold war, korean war, vietnam war, civil rights, the pill, free love movement activism
Natural being made technological
burges ‘an organic entity being turned into a mechanism’
‘ultra-violence’
