English a level - dystopian unseen

Dystopian references and literary techniques

Date and author Fahrenheit 451

1953, Ray Bradbury

Give 10 dystopian tropes

Failed utopia, post-apocalyptic world, political commentary, satire, survivalism, disruption of interpersonal relationships, manipulation of language, power and control, oppression of the individual, resistance and rebellion

2 terms that explore a recurring image

motif, symbol

2 ways to analyse sentence-level structure

short sentences build tension

contrasting sentence lengths

4 things to consider when discussing narrative perspective

1/2/3rd person

reliability

omniscience

tense

Date and author Gather the Daughters

2017, Jennie Melamed

Date and author A Clockwork Orange

1962, Anthony Burgess

Date and author of Animal Farm

1945, Orwell

Date and author Brave New World

1932, Aldous Huxley

Date and author Vox

2018, Christina Delcher

4 terms for exploring sentence-level language analysis

simile

metaphor

personification

hyperbole/liotes

3 ways to analyse whole-text structure

shift in ideas

climax

difference between opening and ending

5 structural techniques

juxtaposition

repetition

tricolon

listing for effect

rhetorical question

5 formal techniques

stream of consciousness

flashbacks or forwards

dialogue

direct speech

reported speech

date and author The Lottery

1948, Shirley Jackson

date and author When the Sleeper Wakes

1899, H.G. Wells

date and time We

1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin

date and author The Road

2006, Cormac McCarthy

how does a clockwork orange explore manipulation of language in an unconventional way

Alex and his ‘droogs’, his friends, speak in ‘nadslat’: an teel criminal antilanguage that enables hierarchy among gangs

how does gather the daughters explore futuristic technology in an unconventional way

modern technology is eliminated; they live in an old fashioned way

how does brave new world explore power and control in an unconventional way

“soma,” a drug, is used to keep citizens under control rather than typical fear tactics

How does McCarthy’s the road explore disruption of interpersonal relationships differently

in a post-apocalyptic world where the earth is covered in a cloud making even the sun invisible, a father and son travel by foot together to look for civilisation, sharing deep love and commitment and trying to preserve their memories

date and author The Long Walk

1979, Stephen King

when was the space race

1955-1969 (first moon landing)

when was the fall of the Berlin wall

1989

summarise gene therapy 2010s

gene therapy revolutionised in early 2010s by discovery of new viral vectors, September 2010 used for the first time to treat an inherited blood disorder

context of the Spanish influenza

1918, took 21 million lives, worst pandemic since the black death

when did the world wide web launch

1993, making the internet accessible

when was the first global peace organisation founded and what is it called

1946, The United Nations

when was the first successful heart transplant operation

1967

when was AIDS first recognised, although not by name, in the USA

1981

when was the nuclear power plant catastrophe in Chernobyl

1986

date and author We Ate the Children Last

2011, Yan Martel

first successful xenotransplantation

1984, a baboon heart

date and author the Lord of the Flies

1954, William Golding

what is cannibalism in dystopias often a metaphor for? give an example of a text that does this

consumerism/capitalism

‘We Ate the Children Last’ by Martel, 2011

date and author Tender is the Flesh

2017, Augustina Bazterrica

date and author The Children of Men

1992, P.D. James

summarise the concerns of The Children of Men

all men become infertile, showing concerns for future hope and reproduction

summarise the concerns of Tender is the Flesh

industrialised cruelty, factor farming, and capitalism

a virus renders all animal meat inedible, so humans are bred for “special meat"; the protagonist, Marcos, morally struggles with his job in a human processing plant

3 technologies invented between 1880 and 1910

electric light bulbs, cars, planes

when was The Communist Manifesto published

1848

context of chemical weapons in WWI

chlorine, mustard, and phosgene gases responsible for 1.3 million casualties and over 90,000 fatalities

what was The Geneva Protocol

a 1925 international treaty that banned the use of biological and chemical weapons, but did not restrict their research or production

when were chemical weapons used in the Syrian civil war

Sarin gas used against civilians in 2013

when was the USSR’s first nuclear test

1949

when was the Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

when and where was the first International Congress of Eugenics

1912, London

by when did all states in America have forced sterilisation laws?

how many Americans were forcefully sterilised by 1963?

which famous case signified the legalisation of forced sterilisation in the US under eugenics policies?

1931

64,000

Buck v Bell (1927)

when was the Nazi Gestapo established

1933

book burning context in Nazi Germany

1930s Nazis burnt 20 years of research output from the Institute for Sexology which researched gender and sexuality

1930s 200,000 books burnt in Nazi Germany

first official recognitions of climate change

1979: US National Academy of Sciences confirmed that doubling CO2 rates would raise global temperature by 1.5-4.5 degrees

when was the Toronto Conference and what did it try to do

1988, enforce strict laws controlling CO2 emissions

date and author Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison, 1966

satirising population overgrowth through the protest of the eldsters

date and author The Birth of Love

2010, Joanna Kavenna

set in Darwin C where numbered prisoners are punished for allowing a birth to take place out of state control

what caused the recession of the US economy in 2008

the stock market crash