Real Life
These events inspired "What a Wonderful World" (1968).
What is "The Civil Rights Movement"?
Author of The Lottery
Who is Shirley Jackson?
Dystopias are always inspired by ______
What are real events?
The name of Desmond Frey's company
What is "EVA Solutions"?
When a person or group is deprived of human qualities.
What is a dehumanized state?
This new technological invention in the 1950s inspired "The Veldt".
What is TV?
Author of "The Veldt".
Who is "Ray Bradbury"?
Dystopias are really ______ from the author to the readers
What are "warnings"?
The house of George and Lydia Hadley.
What is a 'HappyLife Home'?
Close observation or monitoring
What is surveillance?
This type of location in 1940s' America inspired the setting of "The Lottery".
What is "suburbia"?
The writers of "What a Wonderful World" (1968).
Who are Bob Thiele and George Weiss?
The four types of dystopian control.
What is bureaucratic, corporate, technological, and philosophical control?
A poem about the dangers of consumerism
What is "The Fear of Neon: Fragments from the Gates of Times Square"?
Ideas, facts, or allegations which are spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause-
What is propaganda?
This current trend is taken to extremes in "EVA"
What is environmental degradation?
This person coined the term “utopia” in 1516.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
The three characteristics of the typical dystopian hero.
What are:
- feels trapped,
- sees the flaws of the society, and
- meets a tragic end?
The black box in "The Lottery" symbolises this particular phenomenon.
What is "tradition"?
When authors make predictions about the future in their works
What is "extrapolation"?
This historical period gave rise to the first works of dystopian fiction.
What is "The Industrialisation"?
This person coined the term “dystopia” in 1868
Who is John Stuart Mill?
The most prominent symbol of hope in dystopian fiction
What is "nature"?
This technology can reproduce smell in the VR of the nursery in "The Veldt".
What is "odorophonics"?
Another word for dystopian fiction.
What is speculative fiction?