George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four showed us just how bad it could get. Orwell’s novel catapulted the dystopian genre to enormous proportions with dystopian movies still nuking the box-office every year. George Orwell really lay down the groundwork for political dystopia that came after it, such as Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream Of Electric […]

How Blade Runner 2049 took inspiration from Nineteen Eighty-Four. How in both texts the control of the state through fear is present: The existence of a born replicant is a hopeful truth that must be squashed. Crushing unorthodoxy. The threat of facing unthinkable torture for rebelling is very present in both texts. Rick Deckhard at […]

An Allegory is defined as a story, a poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Allegory and fairy tales are almost synonymous, only Allegory is more commonly targeted towards adults. George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to warn the post-WW2 population of the threat posed […]

Plan: goof on conspiracy theory format: blog post, news article, Tv wildlife program. Anarcho-primitivism, Neo-Luddism Fears: people being chipped, radiation, waves, ai irony or jokes: Image of a dystopia where technology is piled up in the street and burnt (nazi book burning), people on horseback with muskets charging at our robot overlords. Leaving the theatre […]

When Boyle is listing negative aspects of British culture, he mentions “hating people from a broadly similar town 30 miles away”, this is a social commentary about the divide between British towns, that the British population often enforce on themselves. This divide is greatly due to harmless banter such as rooting for their regional team […]

Jordan Peele uses symbolism and irony to present current racial social issues in a new light, in hope we can all get over our prejudices. He draws comparisons between modern day and how black people were treated before slavery was abolished. The movie is loaded with slave imagery. The idea of taking over a black’s […]

NAME THE TEXT, THE AUTHOR, THE THEME, AND THE TECHNIQUES USED TO CONVEY THE THEME, RESTATE THE QUESTION The book thief is a novel about justice. Markus Zusak uses Liesel to explore the concept of justice. Hans escaping Death. Liesel Escaping death. losing everything Good people lose everything. “You hide a jew, you pay, some […]

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is much more than a prequel of “The Lord Of The Rings” (LOTR). The Hobbit is a coming of age story. Tolkien uses irony and moral dilemma to portray what it’s like growing up and warn to younger generation of trouble to come. The premise of the book is very similar […]

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a novel about a man and his son going on a road trip. The narrator uses motorcycle maintenance as analogy for the separation between the two schools of thought. The classical, and the romantic. Robert M. Persig talks of this split in hope to have the reader […]