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Unveiling Utopias and Dystopias: A Critique of Societal Norms

Dive into the realms of utopias and dystopias, understanding their significance in critiquing societal norms and exploring concepts like community, stability, propaganda, and tragic heroes. Discover the control mechanisms and characteristics of dystopian societies, as well as the struggles of the dystopian protagonist.

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Unveiling Utopias and Dystopias: A Critique of Societal Norms

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  1. Objectives for Brave New World • Understand the terms UTOPIA, DYSUTOPIA, ANTI-UTOPIA • Study Marx’s theories of Social Evolution • Understand what COMMUNITY, STABILITY, and UNITY really mean • Comprehend the actions of a TRAGIC HERO • Understand and Recognize PERSUASIVE and PROPAGANDA techniques

  2. Utopias and dystopias • Utopia: A place, state or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions. • Dystopia: 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. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

  3. Characteristics of dystopia society • 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 • 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

  4. Types of dystopian controls • Corporate Control • Bureaucratic Control • Technological Control • Philosophical/Religious Control

  5. Dystopian protagonist • Often feels trapped and is struggling to escape • Questions the existence social and political systems • Believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he/she lives • Helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his/her perspective

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