https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np Why did the 20th century produce so many-and such vivid- dystopias, works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? en-us 2017-09-21 12:56:34 UTC 2025-11-09 23:03:00 UTC hello@padlet.com jdoster1 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189718604 Dalrymple states that classic dystopias "do not still command our interest because of their technological prescience" (pg. 1). What modern technology would make up a more modern dystopia? ]]> 2017-09-21 12:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189718604 jdoster1 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189720218 Wells thought society was "splitting into two castes and would eventually evolve into separate species because of their different conditions of existence" (pg. 2). Is this happening today? Global vs. national mindset? Rich vs. the poor?]]> 2017-09-21 13:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189720218 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189783994 The author talks about how "whose most salient characteristics are exaggerations of what their authors take to be significant social trends" . Is the author trying to show how important dystopias' social view is in society? pg 1]]> 2017-09-21 14:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189783994 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189784576 The author claims that technology has liberated us but has it really? Do you think that the authors saw coming what technology might get us to?]]> 2017-09-21 15:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189784576 jdoster1 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189786390 Dalrymple says that "The ultimate target of Huxley's dystopia was the idea of the good life as the instant gratification of sensory desires" (pg. 4). What role does instant gratification play in our society today?]]> 2017-09-21 15:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189786390 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189787463 "The Moloks, toiling in their underground factories, make everything thei Elois need for their easeful existence. But like human spiders, the Morlocks emerge after dark to prey upon the Elois, who are meat for them. How is it possible for the Morlocks to make everything that helps the Elois' survive and at the same time, they prey upon the Elois? pg 2]]> 2017-09-21 15:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189787463 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189787941 In a tv series named Black Mirror, they exaggerate some technology we have today. It is a dystopia of the 21st century and it is not that far from reality. Do you think that people will always see the future and technology advancements as something harming or that eventually living without that technology would seem impossible? Do people really become less "humans" with it and more like robots?]]> 2017-09-21 15:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189787941 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189789293 "The benefits of technological advance will be as nothing, they say, by comparison with the evil ends to which man will put it". (pg1)
Do you think that the problem is how much we are advancing in society and all the new technology that's coming out, or is it really the way it is used by people?]]> 2017-09-21 15:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189789293 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189790790 The author mentions a lot of aspects that are seen in Brave New World, like how "those who live lives of immediate gratification... would not be able to bear solitude of any kind." and "the knowledge, tastes and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds." (pg 4)
How can you compare some of the aspects of Brave New World to our society? ]]> 2017-09-21 15:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189790790 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189792505 While describing London's 'The Iron Heel', the author mentions that "Even the Morlocks seem preferable" than the mob describe, and he later connects Huxley and Orwell with England's "climate of unrelieved pessimism". Do you believe that dystopias are pessimistic or realistic?

]]> 2017-09-21 15:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189792505 https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189793357 "Dumb apathy had vanished. it was now dynamic- a fascinating spectacle of dread" 
Do you agree with the fact that the authors who wrote Dystopians did it with the intention of pessimism and apathy. Now, as it is shown, apathy has reduces, making it more positive. pg 2]]> 2017-09-21 15:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jdoster1/z2a86428a8np/wish/189793357