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DYSTOPIA - Coggle Diagram
DYSTOPIA
FEAR & VIOLENCE
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DESENSITISATION
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ANTHONY BURGESS - Human nature and free will causes violence, not desensitisation, any attempt to change behaviour is immoral
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AUTHORIAL TECHNIQUES
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POSTMODERNISM
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FREDRIC JAMESON - "sims, even wallows in the fragmentary and chaotic currents of change"
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POLITICAL
TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT = little or no regard for individuals, sustained by belief in utilitarianism
Dictator of SOVIET UNION, JOSEPH STALIN (1878-1953)
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PHYSICAL FORCE
Threat, torture, punishment
GENRE
Subsections
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DEGENERATE
Mentally, physically, morally in decline
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UTOPIA vs DYSTOPIA
Greek ou-topos = no place, coined by Sir Thomas More (1516)
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ECO
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Features
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DESTRUCTION
Danger, toxicity, ruin --> Hopeless future
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SURVEILLANCE & DISTRUST
THE COLD WAR (1947-1991)
Western nations (US) believed in capatalism / democracy & Eastern nations (Soviet Union) believed in communism
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PROPAGANDA, ESPIONAGE, TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITION (e.g. 'Space Race')
McCATHYISM
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Immoral use of private info, using it to condemn them
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ISOLATION
Sense of self deteriorates, returning to raw state of ID
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CHARACTERISATION
PROTAGONIST
Undergone victimhood / REBEL (overthrows, rescues, asserts etc.)
VICTIM
Target of MISFORTUNE, cruelty / PERIPHERAL characters
ANTAGONIST
OPPOSES protagonist through control, violence / IMMOVABLE nature / Frightening ability to CONTROL, deceive masses