Transcript Dystopian Society

Dystopian Society
Chaos under the smoke
screen of order
Jade Cleveringa
The Giver
A fear or disgust of the world outside
the state
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“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or
inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color,
pain, or past,” (Lowry 165).
For this community they have never known real
pain, or real suffering or real emotion and to
even think of actually experiencing it is scary to
them. None of them understand how people in
Elsewhere can feel these things and understand
them and because they don’t understand it they
fear the people from and Elsewhere itself.
Constant surveillance by state police
agencies
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“Everyone had known, he
remembered with
humiliation….the day last month
that he had taken an apple home,”
(Lowry 23).
In this community there is a
speaker system everywhere that
tells the community everything at
any point. When someone does
something wrong no matter how
trivial it may seem an
announcement is made singling
out the person without ever
actually saying the person’s name.
The fact they would know what
anyone and everyone does at any
point and time proves they have a
elite surveillance system.
The banishment of the natural world
from daily life
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“He had never seen an aircraft
so close, for it was against the
rules for Pilots to fly over the
community,” (Lowry 1).
In our society is completely
normal to see air crafts flying
over the cities to see cars
driving along the roads or
trains along the tracks. But
here not only are most things
like that completely gone any
existing ones are forbidden
inside the community.
The Matrix
A fear or disgust of the world outside
the state
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“It is the world that has been pulled over your
eyes to blind you from the truth,” (Morpheus).
Here humans don’t even know of the outside
world and the machines have no use for it but
when a human learns of the real world they are
afraid and disgusted by what the human race has
fallen to.
Constant Surveillance by state police
agencies
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“Inside the Matrix they are
everyone and no one,”
(Morpheus).
As said inside the Matrix there
is a program called the agent
which has the form of a human
but can duplicate itself any
number of times. They can
“take over” anyone still
connected to the Matrix and
therefore always knows what’s
going on with everyone and
any given time.
The banishment of the natural world
from daily life
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“The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to
keep us under control in order to change a human being
into this,” (Morpheus).
For people in the Matrix there is no natural world all they
know is the computer life they live and the natural world
left behind is left and forgotten falling into ruin and
desolate destruction.
The Hunger Games
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A fear or disgust of the world outside
the state
“This is how we remember our
past, this is how we safeguard
our future,” (Hunger Games).
For this society they know
nothing outside of their system
they have seen the outside the
forests and the freedom but the
fear of dying out there from
hunger or animals scares them
into staying in the society.
Constant surveillance by state police
agencies
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“They’d catch us, cut out or tongues or worse, we
wouldn’t get five miles,” (Catniss).
Here the main character clearly states that the
society cannot get away with anything whether it
be escaping or stealing food because they know
the Capitol is always watching and always knows.
The banishment of the natural world
from daily life
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“In penance for their uprising each district shall offer up a male and
female between the ages of 12 and 18 for a public “Reaping”,”
(Hunger Games).
In the natural order of things people would die from natural causes
with the occasional murder or accident but in this society in order to
maintain order they take out that natural selection and kill off people
in a game.
All Summer in a Day
A fear or disgust of the world outside
the state
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“And they, they had been on
Venus all their lives, and they had
been only two years old when last
the sun came out and had long
since forgotten the color and heat
of it and the way it really was. But
Margot remembered,” (All
Summer in a Day).
The children of this society on
Venus are disgusted and hate
people originally from Earth where
the sun is always shining but not
for any good reason except that
they are jealous of what people
from earth were able to enjoy that
they cannot.
Constant surveillance by state police
agencies
“But this is the day, the scientists predict,
they say, they know, the sun…” (All
Summer in a Day).
 The surveillance in this story is different
from the rest because it’s a constant
monitoring of the rain to predict when the
sun will come out but it is no less of an
elite surveillance system.
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The banishment of the natural world
from daily life
“They hated her pale snow face, her
waiting silence, her thinness, and her
possible future,” (All Summer in a Day).
 Margot is from the natural world from
Earth and because of that she’s different,
odd, set apart from the rest. She acts
different and is in a sense banished from
the rest of the children.
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Let Oakland be a City of Civilty
Fear or disgust of the world outside the
state
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“Let those who are
packing AK47’s and
Uzis move to another
town,” (Oakland).
It is clearly seen that
the city of Oakland
has a fear of the
outside world
because of the
violence happening
all the time with
weapons and more.
Constant surveillance by police
agencies
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“Let our hearts beat strong, let Oakland be a city of
civility, let the good times roll,” (Oakland).
Its not very obvious that there is surveillance but in order
for the perfect society they want they’d need to watch
anything and everything at every point in the day.
The banishment of the natural world
from daily life
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“Let suburbanites treat
Oakland with respect
instead of a place they
invade in the morning and
leave with the money at
night,” (Oakland).
The people see the
society as so perfect that
nothing from the natural
world bad or good could
ever invade it that upon
finding the city such
would turn away because
it’s so perfect
Dystopian Works Used
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The Giver by Lois
Lowry
The Matrix
The Hunger Games
All Summer in a Day
by Ray Bradbury
Let Oakland be a City
of Civility by Ishmael
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