1984
O'Brien puts a cage of rats over Winston's face.
A dystopia is an illusion of what?
A perfect world
Close observation, especially of a spy or criminal
Surveillance
If Winston is the dystopian protagonist in 1984, who is the antagonist?
O'Brien, Big Brother
What does the act of fighting "precrime" look like?
To stop a crime that happens in the future from happening in the present.
What were the three main aims of Goldstein's book?
Perpetual War, Class Hierarchies, Doublethink
Propaganda
Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
Indoctrinate
Katniss, Peeta, Gale...
What is the name of the woman precog?
Agatha
Who were the three men at the Chestnut Tree Cafe?
Aarsonsen, Rutherford, and Jones
What is often believed about individualism?
Everybody should be the same; no individualism
The right or condition of self government.
Autonomy
What does a dystopian protagonist typically think, or recognize, about society?
Something is deeply wrong with the way that society is operated and controlled.
What was the "drug" that John takes called?
Clarity
What war was George Orwell in?
The Spanish Revolution
Big Brother is an example of what in a dystopian world?
Figurehead or concept that is worshipped by society.
Workers or working class people
Proletariat
Dystopian protagonists often live in a world with a totalitarian government. What does this mean?
Centralized government and complete subservience to the state.
This movie takes place in what year?
2054
What is Winston's new job when he is "reintegrated" into society?
He works for a subcommittee of a subcommittee in the Ministry of Truth that deals with minor grammatical corrections.
The MacIntosh 1984 commercial about apple computers featured what three dystopian characteristics?
Uniformity, rebellion, loss of individualism, surveillance, propaganda, etc...
An authoritarian political ideology characterized by a dictatorial leader.
Fascism
John, our protagonist in Minority Report, originally stops a man from stabbing his wife. What was that man's name?
Howard
Why does Danny Whitner believe that is "precrime" is not humane?
You cannot be sure that these "visions" from the future are correct. Therefore, you may be incriminating innocent people.