Science fiction

“ I'm not pretty enough, not smart enough, not strong enough. I just wish we could all be exact equals.” Well do you really? In the short dystopian fiction story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. We get a look at what a society would look like if all people were forced to be equal in every possible way. We also witness what happens when a young man named Harrison Bergeron breaks free from his handicaps. Harrison Bergeron was a hero for trying to show the citizens of this society…

Yellow Peril in Canada: “The Swamps Come Back” as an Anti-Asian Allegory Published in the August 1941 issue of Uncanny Tales, Nadine Booth Brumell’s short story “The Swamps Come Back” features a group of white men seeking to save the world from an alien race. Throughout the story, the alien race never explicitly harms anyone and never talks of a plan to take over the world. It is only the race’s intelligence, reproduction, and being yellow that are implied to be the issue at hand. This paper…

Generic conventions are used in Gattaca 1997 by Andrew Nicole and the pedestrian 1951 by Ray Bradbury work to an encourage an audience to view an idea from a particular perspective. Gattaca uses visual conventions of film to influence the western audience to view technology such as genetic engineering as being damaging to society from that the perspective of an anachronistic protagonist, Vincent. The pedestrian manipulates written conventions to construct social changes caused by advances in…

in return for a human corpse is “worth it.” What better way to convince people that they’re doing good, even by death? The dehumanization of the world builds a sense of dread, allowing the concept that nature is completely absent and that precise-science controls the world with a cold fist. Dehumanize and demoralize; no thoughts or feelings are needed for simple tasks, predestination, and mindless existence. (Or at least, that’s what they…

Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to truly understand a problem. For society, this insight has often been provided in the form of fantasy. The disconnect between fantasy and reality has the potential to explore our society in ways otherwise unavailable. In China Mieville’s editorial introduction to the symposium on “Marxism and Fantasy”, he describes how “fantasy is a mode that, in constructing an internally coherent but actually impossible totality … mimics the ‘absurdity’ of capitalist…

The 1950s were a very difficult time for many people. Two American authors, Ray Bradbury and John Updike, published literary works during these tough times. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel about a dystopian society where the government prohibits the public the access to books. The society’s “fireman” are employed to go around and burn books and the homes of people who possess them. Montag, the main character of the novel, happens to be a fireman. The novel takes the reader along…

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a conceited dystopian society where any possession of books is illegal? Well, in a dystopian society like Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, it is a community where firemen have to burn books for a living. People are not allowed to peruse books but only allowed to scan through training manuals for their jobs. When people who are against the government read the books, they will either get arrested and have a death penalty, or they either can…

Conventions means the unspoken rule of the society. For example, Child should show respect to their parent, but even if the child didn’t show any respect, it’s not against the law, but the society and the child know that it is wrong. Two characters in the fiction literature world worthy to mention are Dr. Jekyll in “The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde” and Victor Frankenstein in “ Frankenstein”, They go against social conventions and dramatic changes go upon them. The reason why…

individual exists only to serve the state, has taken over the society which has brought many rules and controls along with it. The only concept that people know is “We” and not “I.” Equality 7-2521, a Street Sweeper of the city, has a fascination with the Science of Things and has a desire to be sent to the Home of the Scholars. He has been taught that it is a sin to have secrets, so he believes he is guilty, although, he feels he has done no wrongdoing.…

Ohreum Kwon EWRT 2 John Kee Sooja 07 December 2017 Final Essay Draft In Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author encourages the audience to confront irrational characteristics that are present in our society today by comparing them to rational characteristics displayed in feminist society. Gilman wants her readers to realize She attacks the current traditions concerning the environment and farming, population, education, gender roles and relationships so that the reader will come to…