English 2033E Lecture : Eng_Mar12.docx
13 Mar 2013
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Dystopia fiction: it leads back to utopia back in 1515 (an ideal society) Dystopia is the opposite of an ideal society. Possibly leads to chaos: loss of law & order, humanity, anarchy. There could also be excess order; loss of human freedom. Our current world would be somewhere between chaos and loss of human freedom. The world in the giver has been emerged from our own. The word community sounds a little odd to refer to the place the characters live. Shows that there are separation among the different communities. Most people within the community do not visit the other community. Community is more important than the individual. Rules instead of using the word law ; disobeying the rules equal capital punishment. Rules is more child based, while laws are adult based. Rules has a way of controlling many aspects of life instead of the bare minimum. There is a mixture of dystopian and utopian aspects.
