Dystopia
Characterization
Theme and Plot
Harrison Bergeron
Pedestrian
100
One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Examples include Minority Report and Running Man.
What is Corporate control:
100
"I am the Emperor!"
What is Dialogue
100
The Dangers of Equality
What is theme of Harrison Bergeron
100
The year in which "Harrison Bergeron" is set
What is 2081
100
The year in which "The Pedestrian" is set
What is 2053
200
Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. Examples in film include Brazil.
What is Bureaucratic control:
200
"Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence"
What is direct characterization
200
The tone of Harrison Bergeron
What is awe, amazement, to shock and sadness
200
Type of government or control that exists for Harrison Bergeron
What is Conformist
200
The type of government that controls Mr. Mead's society
What is technology?
300
Society is controlled by technology—through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Examples include The Matrix, The Terminator, and I, Robot.
What is Technological control:
300
1".He stamped his foot and the studio shook."(43)
What is actions
300
The climax of Harrison Bergeron
What is when Harrison and the dancer kiss the sky
300
The person in charge over the handicaps
What is the Handicapper General
300
What Leonard Mead is doing when the police car finds him.
What is walking
400
Much of the Cold War anxiety focused on the fear of these having a negative impact on the environment and civilization
What are nuclear weapons?
400
”His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.”
What is thoughts
400
Dangers of progress
What is the theme of The Pedestrian
400
Watching a ballet dance on the TV
What are George and Hazel doing in the story?
400
The police car takes him to the insane asylum.
What is because he committed a crime.
500
Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government.
What is Philosophical/religious control:
500
’I’d think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds,’ said Hazel, a little envious. ‘All the things they think up.’
What is dialogue
500
a. rising action b. denouement c. falling action d. inciting moment e. exposition f. climax g. resolution
What is the plot line
500
Harrison is above average intelligence, and a non-comformists
What is why Harrison wears so many handicaps
500
What Mr. Mead does not own.
What is a TV / viewing screen