English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consumerism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Entirely different world from the one we inhabit. Science fiction/speculative fiction utopia < o (not) + place; e (good) + place. In brave new world, able to be rounded character from living on reserve or being an alpha male. Takes ideas from scientific discoveries and create alternate realities from them. 1932 helicopters new thing, cloning envisaged possible, test tube babies conceived as possible (not workable until later), 1923 j. b. s most babies born through ectogenesis, isolation of sexuality. Birth control not available in form of pill until 1960"s. Anticay women injected with sex hormones from monkeys, Make a place better than it was, but make it so there are still problems in it. You have to manipulate society and people in order to move them forward. Fiction that takes us to opposite of utopia tragic movement. A society intended to be ideal, but has a crucial shortcoming at its heart that makes it far from ideal.