Dystopia/Propaganda/Censorship![]() EQ: What is a Dystopia? What does it look like? Today in class:
The painter Thomas Cole did a series of works called "The Course of the Empire. " It was based on a few lines from a poem by the poet Byron about the rise and fall of humanity. Byron wrote: There is the moral of all human tales; This but the same rehearsal of the past First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails Wealth, vice, corruption Look through the paintings in the series, noticing how the sun rises and moves through the sky like a day beginning with the sun rise and ending with the sunset. The mountain in the background is a constant, but the foreground changes drastically. As you look through the paintings, think about the parallels between them and the rise and fall of civilizations. Discussion
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Ray BradburyFULL TITLE · Fahrenheit 451 TYPE OF WORK · Novel
GENRE · Science fiction LANGUAGE · English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1950–1953, Los Angeles, California DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1953 (a shorter version entitled “The Fireman” was published in 1951 in Galaxy Science Fiction) PUBLISHER · Ballantine Books NARRATOR · Third-person, limited omniscient; follows Montag’s point of view, often articulating his interior monologues CLIMAX · Montag’s murder of Beatty PROTAGONIST · Montag ANTAGONIST · Beatty, but also society in general SETTING (TIME) · Sometime in the twenty-fourth century; there have been two atomic wars since 1990 SETTING (PLACE) · In and around an unspecified city POINT OF VIEW · Montag’s FALLING ACTION · Montag’s trip out of the city into the country TENSE · Past, with occasional transitions into present tense during Montag’s interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness passages FORESHADOWING · Montag’s uncanny feelings of prescience; early descriptions of the Mechanical Hound; Montag’s nervous glances toward the ventilator shaft where he has hidden his books; discussion of the qualities of fire TONE · Foreboding and menacing, disoriented, poetic, bitterly satirical THEMES · Censorship, knowledge versus ignorance MOTIFS · Paradoxes, animals and nature, religion, television and radio SYMBOLS · Fire, blood, the Electric-Eyed Snake, the hearth, the salamander, the phoenix, the sieve and the sand, Denham’s Dentifrice, the dandelion, mirrors Archives |
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