Science fiction

The novel When We Wake by Karen Healey is a captivating story that shows the author’s view on what the world will be like in one-hundred twenty years. The novel explores Healey’s view on the selfishness of mankind, and the fact that people will do almost anything to get what they want, including sacrificing our own planet. The author showcases this theme by presenting it throughout the description of the setting, the unveiling of the plot, and the development of the characters. The story takes…

Skynet from Terminator, Ultron from The Avengers, and the robots from I, Robot are all Hollywood dramatizations of robotics. These are all extreme examples that tend to strike worry into the hearts of the viewer. Comparing the initial upbringing of these three extreme examples to today’s robots, they are programmed to increase the quality of life for inhabitants on Earth. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is intelligence programmed into machines or robots to overcome challenges. Modern…

to India is a novel by the English author Edward Morgan Forster, published in 1924 and took him 12 years to write, so he actually started writing in since 1912. It’s basically set against the British Raj or the British rule in india. This novel is fiction, however it’s based on Forster’s real life experience and incidents he actually witnessed but the rest of the story is definitely made up. Forster used to tutor a young Indian Muslim called Masood in England, they developed a close friendship…

One’s imagination is one’s reality, the mindset and possibility an event or action can be. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the novel presents a dystopian literature that emits an alternate reality of life. The story is gives off the government being broken and the society itself completely changed to the ways a few wanted which stripped women’s rights, United States of America changed to Republic of Gilead, and the Gilead made some women into Handmaids which used just for…

In the classic novel “Brave New World” by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, Huxley questions the values and goals of 1931 London through the use of irony and satire to portray a futuristic version of the world in which the social trends of Great Britain and the United States are taken to extremes. The world Huxley writes about, since the setting is still on Earth but an unknown amount of time in the future, is still able to resonate with readers today. Within Brave New World,…

The dystopian novel, The handmaid’s tale, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, is based after the government calls off the constitutional and begin to build a ‘christian society’ that replaces the US, now called Gilead. The handmaid’s tale explores many different themes, one of which is surrounding the contrast of gender roles and why they are represented this way. Women and men have completely different titles they are chosen to have based on certain characteristics and backgrounds. Gilead…

Four hundred and fifty-one degrees is the temperature at which paper catches fire and burns. Written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 must have to do with burning books, given the title. Guy Montag, the main character, is one of the book burners, also known as a “fireman” in their society. Their job is to start fires instead of stopping them. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses Montag’s transformation from a fireman to a revolutionary to illustrate how knowledge and self-reflection can change…

The moment flames and kerosene engulfed Captain Beatty was the moment a man’s death ended all literary censorship in a society. Symbolically, Beatty was the last book burnt — he was the end. Ray Bradbury’s futuristic Fahrenheit 451 portrays a hedonistic society where time was consumed by breakneck driving and interactive television walls. Books, at its very core, were illegal and banned by the government. Beatty, the captain of the fire department, represented everything firefighter Guy Montag…

Lars Eighner’s was born on November 25th, 1948. At some point during his studies as a young adult, he decided to drop out of the University of Texas at Austin which he was attending at the time and took up a job at a state mental hospital in Texas. Some time later after taking this job, in 1988, he left this job over disagreements over policy at this job. Thanks to a lack of money, the lack of a job, and being evicted thanks to the lack of rent payments Eighner quickly became homeless. Over the…

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury introduces two women who influence the life of the main character Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job is dedicated to destroying books. The seventeen-year-old neighbor, Clarisse McClellan, is mentioned first and provides the stimulus for Montag’s new outlook on life. His wife Mildred, whose personality differs completely from Clarisse’s, portrays the second woman who impacts Montag. With their differences, Clarisse and Mildred influence Montag in opposite ways…