Unseen Dystopian Links

Regimes/Dictators

We ' The Benefactor' (Zamyatin), Earthworks 'The farmer' (Aldiss) , children of men (James) ' The Warden of England' The Carhullan Army (Hall) 'The Authority' , When she woke- (Jordan) Theocracy (abortion is illegal)’chromed red’, The chrysalids- (Wyndham) Theocracy 'It is a blasphemy against the true Image of God'

Numbers/ names

We (Zamyatin) 'D6059' 'I330' Darkness at Noon (Koestler) 'Number one' (dictator) A clockwork orange '6655321' (Burgess) John the savage' Brave new world (Huxley) Snowman' Oryx and Crake he's lost identity/dehumanised (Atwood)

Uniforms-

We (Zamyatin) 'Grey Unif' , 'Blue uniform' Earthworks (Aldiss) 'uniformed cops' Is it your day to join the revolution Literary- 'Regulators' The Carhullan Army' (Hall) when she woke ‘chromed red’ jordan

Phallic imagery to show the power of the regime-

Children of men (James) 'State secret police', 'guns' is this your day to join the revolution? (Valentine) 'Apartment buildings' High rise (Ballard) , 'Offshore towers' Oryx and Crake (Atwood) 'Grotesque big pistols' Darkness at noon (Koestler) 'Service pistols and laser tubes' DADOES (Dick)

Phallic imagery to show rebellion-

We (Zamyatin) d-503 diary Z for Zachariah (O'Brien) 'Ann's diary' 'A book is a loaded gun' Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)

Resistance movement-

We 'MEPHI' (Zamyatin) Is this your day to join the revolution (Valentine) 'John Doe' the iron heel (London) 'The revolutionaries' It can't happen here ( Lewis) 'new underground'

Betrayal-

Brainwashing

We 'The great operation' (Zamyatin) 'mood organs' Do Androids dream of electric sheep (Dick) Woman on the edge of time- 'Emotion control brain implants' (Piercy) A clockwork Orange 'the Ludovico technique' (Burgess)

Surveillance-

'Parlor walls' Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) (large tvs lining walls) We (Zamyatin) the 'one state' is made entirely of glass 'electric eyes' There will come soft rain (Bradbury) 'Your offence was known to us' Ella Minnow Pea (Dunn) Fahrenheit 451 (Burgess) 'Mechanical hounds'

Secret Police

Children of men (James) 'State Secret Police' Oryx and Crake (Atwood) 'Corpsecorps' 'the police are always watching' 'uniformed police' DADOES (Dick) We 'Guardians' (Zamyatin) Oryx and Crake 'Corpsecorp' (Atwood)

Love

To be touched with love was some kind of miracle' when she woke (Jordan) 'Love is another name for sex DADOES (Dick)

Parents protecting their children

Hitler Youth Denouncing and indoctrination

Literacy-the trial- Kafka denounced by neighbours he reached out to touch the child' The Road (Mcarthy)

Fragmentation of family bonds

'The hatchery' 'mass production' brave new world (Huxley) Maternal norms' We (Zamyatin)

Fragmentation of Identity

we 'great operation' (Zamyatin)

Control of body

'sterilisation' Do androids dream of electric sheep? (Dick) The hatchery' brave new world (Huxley) 'uniform batches' 'I could never get an abortion.. its a life sentence' DADOES (Dick)

Sex as rebellion

Pink coupons' We (Zamyatin) ‘everyone belongs to everyone else' Brave new world (Huxley)

Culture of fear

'the great operation' We (Zamyatin) 'Bounty Hunters' DADOES (Dick)

Control of Language

-'It was a pleasure to burn' 'flapping pigeon-winged books' (Bradbury)

Need to witness and record

'today is August 4 2026' There will come soft rain (Bradbury) 'February 18' Letters ,That only a mother (Merril)

'may 20th' z for Zacharia (O'Brien)

Bird symbolism

z for Zacharia - "dead birds all over the street" (O'Brien)

We - Zamyatin birds fly over wall