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Genres. Utopian and dystopian fiction. The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures.

Utopian and dystopian fiction

Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction (sometimes referred to as apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia.[1] Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction. More than 400 utopian works were published prior to the year 1900 in the English language alone, with more than a thousand others during the twentieth century.[2] Subgenres[edit] Utopian fiction[edit] Dystopian fiction[edit] Combinations[edit]

Genre: Science Fiction – Genre. Science Fiction film is a genre that incorporates hypothetical, science-based themes into the plot of the film.

Genre: Science Fiction – Genre

Often, this genre incorporates futuristic elements and technologies to explore social, political, and philosophical issues. The film itself is usually set in the future, either on earth or in space. The Most Dangerous Game. The Hobbit. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : chapter one. Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : chapter one

Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.

Wintriness responded to wintriness. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" ... from 60second Recap® The Odyssey. Odyssey. Greek text of the Odyssey's opening passage The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

Odyssey

Into the Wild. Into the Wild may refer to: Film[edit] Literature[edit]

Into the Wild

1984. George Orwell's "1984" ... from 60second Recap® Nineteen Eighty-Four. History and title[edit]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's "1984" ... from 60second Recap® Animal Farm. 5 more notes : by SHEKOOFEH493, September 04, 2012 6.

Animal Farm

Which of the animals does most of the heavy labor and adopts the motto :Ï will work harder"? Boxer 7. Boxer, who believes that he has unintentionally killed a stable boy in the chaos, expresses his regret at taking a life, even though it is a human one. 2 Comments 1097 out of 1337 people found this helpful Snowball's Return. Dystopian Literature. Liam O'Flaherty (1897-1984) The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty (1897-1984) Approximate Word Count: 1619 The long June twilight faded into night.

Liam O'Flaherty (1897-1984)

Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey. Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. On a rooftop near O'Connell Bridge, a Republican sniper lay watching. He was eating a sandwich hungrily.

A Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury. The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water.

A Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury

Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness: Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in that hand waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk. "Does this safari guarantee I come back alive? " "We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs.

" Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue. "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Harrison Bergeron. French Translation from Avice Robitaille.

Harrison Bergeron

Hindi Translation by Ashwin.Urdu Translation by RealMSRussian translation THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else.