BOOK PREVIEW BNW 1984 CLOUSE 2017 MODERN POST

BOOK PREVIEW: BNW & 1984 CLOUSE 2017

MODERN, POST MODERN, AND DYSTOPIAN FICTION • Modernism (1914 -1945) • Brave New World-1932 • Post Modernism (1950 -Present) • • 1984 -1949 Fahrenheit-1953

DYSTOPIAN FICTION VS POST APOCALYPTIC FICTION • Dystopian fiction deals more with what does it mean to be a human through the lenses of abuse of power, oppression, and injustice. • Post Apocalyptic fiction deals with what it means to be human while thinking about survival, civility, rebuilding civilization.

• The Hunger Games • The Giver • 1984 • Brave New World • Fahrenheit 451 • The Handmaid’s Tale • V for Vendetta • Maze Runner • Matched • Mad Max • The Walking Dead • The Road • The Stand • World War Z • Seveneves • Station Eleven • One Second After • Wool

WYNTKA: BRAVE NEW WORLD • Normal human emotions, families, monogamy, and natural child birth are a thing of the past. • Replaced by scientific human engineering, drugs to replace emotions, and sexual acts have become the only forms of (physical) intimacy. • What it may make you think of: The Giver & Fahrenheit 451

WYNTKA: 1984 • Police state where the government (Big Brother) is always watching and controlling of your every thought and action. • • Thought police, doublethink, and the Party 3 Main Ideas enforced on you by the BB: • • War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength What it may make you think of: Fahrenheit 451, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany