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Um-Helat, SPECULATIVE LITERATURE, Festival Settings, Utopia's that…
Um-Helat
Omelas
Evokes the Idea of Running away from your problem without any strive for change
"They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back."
(Festival)
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea.
SPECULATIVE LITERATURE
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Rule of Names
Archipelago Setting
Encompassing fantasy feeling
Wizards
Dragons
Magic
Shouldn't tell each other truenames
who knows the true name, gets control
The Professor's Houses
Professor is obsesed with building house
He was so focused that by that time his daughter was already old enough to go to college
Introduction to Psychoanalytical Theory
The Wife's Story
Uses familiar human atmosphere to fool readers
Actually about wolves
Idea of Werewolf is reversed
Jose Saramago
Blindness
Pandemic Setting
Panopticism
Always being watched but never know for sure
In Blindness, the blinds are abnormal and therefore dangerous for the society.
white blindness that affects the whole society except for one woman
Blindness could be read metaphorically as a comment on the situation of the humans in a world wherein the power relations govern.
Blindness is just a another way of seeing
Blindness (Actually being blind)
Blindness can be traced to relationships between individuals
people interact within their relationships according to working of power, but they were not aware of i
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Adapted into the movie "Blade Runner"
Empathy
Humans can feel empathy for non-humans
Androids
According to Misselhorn, empathy can also be triggered by objects that have a low degree of
human resemblance
Physically similar to humans
"Do androids dream? Rick asked himself."
The book asks: what qualities and traits makes one human.
Androids can feel more compassionate than humans (Ironic)
Rick Deckard
"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are".
Rick's new found empathetic capacity allows him to begin to appreciate even this form of false life
Kean Alado
Krazy Krook Kio
Financial Problems
Motivation for Kio and Mr. Saber into desperation
Kio robs the bank
Mr. Saber is on the brink of desperation
Relates to real world issues through people being unemployed and negative coping strategies
Morality
"The ringing of police sirens filled the atmosphere as they approached on the street below, but Kio didn’t look back."
"He began repeating to himself,
I won’t have any regrets, none at all.
"
Psychoanalytical Theory
Kio's id = kio wants money for himself
Kio's superego = don't take other peoples stuff
Festival Settings
(Festival)
It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat!
Utopia's that shift into Dystopias
Utilitarian Ideals taking Action
"they all understand that their happiness, .... depend wholly on this child's abominable misery. "
"But sometimes, only by blood sacrifice may true evil be kept at bay."
Both stories end with the fact that a true Utopia can never be achieved as some people will reject it because of a worldview
Evokes the idea of making a change rather than walking away
"So don’t walk away. The child needs you, too, don’t you see? You also have to fight for her, now that you know she exists, or walking away is meaningless"
Moral Dilemma
Makes you want to question your morals
"Now do you believe in them? Are they not more credible? But there is one more thing to tell, and this is quite incredible."
Narrator acknowledges that we have a different viewpoint as we disagree with whats going on in Omelas
“Impossible!” you hiss, your fists slowly clenching at your sides. “How dare you. What have these people done to make you believe such lies?
Diverse City similar to our world
"The citizens of Um-Helat are so many and so wildly different in appearance and origin and development. People in this land come from many others, and it shows in sheen of skin and kink of hair and plumpness of lip and hip."
Advanced in Technology
"Only wave particles can move from our world to theirs, and back again"
Lack of Technology
"that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.—they could perfectly well have central heating, subway trains, washing machines, and all kinds of marvelous devices not yet invented here,"
Oppression by those in Power
"So the social workers of Um-Helat stand, talking now, over the body of a man. He is dead—early, unwilling, with a beautifully crafted pike jammed through his spine and heart."
People turning a blind eye to issues
They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there.
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