On 12 March 1868, John Stuart Mill first coined the word ‘dystopia’ in his Parliamentary speech on Mr. Maguire’s Motion on the State of Ireland (Mill, 1988). Dystopia is an antonym of utopia, a word that Sir Thomas More coined and used as the title of his famous work, Utopia in 1516 (More, 1516/1992). Editors Claeys and Sargent (1999) defined dystopia as a society that is invented to be far worse than contemporary society. Dystopia is also a society that is characterized on what is against the author’s
All semblance of subtlety is lost, replaced with patronizingly explicit descriptions. No longer is the reader required to wonder about the monolith’s identity, as the novel spells it out to be an ancient alien probe guiding the evolution of intelligent life. The ending—arguably the film’s highlight—is reduced from a constant subject of discussion to an open-and-shut case. The
raise awareness and make teenagers realise how the movies they watched had affected them mentally. Movies are categorised into different genres. Each genre is generally focusing on one part of the senses. For example, the horror genre focuses on the sense of fright and the comedy genre focuses on the sense of humour. Nowadays, watching movies has become a hobby to some teenagers. K-drama is an example of teenagers’ favourite drama. However, some teenagers apply whatever they watched into their daily
use of his arbitrary judgement, the science fiction writers cloak that arbitrariness under the mask of necessity and the writer of realistic fiction hides the fundamental arbitrariness under the garb of verisimilitude. Science fiction has been described as a romance basically because its subject matter is essentially romantic in nature; presenting the sheer excitement as well as the horrors of the new vistas opened up by the progress and development of science and technology but its purpose is not
Literature in its broadest sense is any written work. It attempts to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader. Literature has always been a tool for the development of human society in all its means and also to know the history of human traditions, cultures and the writings which had played a pivotal role in the upliftment of the society. Through a literary text we can have a glance of the past happenings in the society, its transformations which had framed up the present
The famous science-fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by the stalwart filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick, can be described as one of the seminal works ever in the history of world cinema. The film succeeds in leaving a very lasting effect on the minds of the audience with its sheer quintessence of content and aesthetic portrayal on the screen. An introspective analysis of the contextual work can make one understand how the filmmaker exudes his cinematic prowess via the use of impressive cinematic
(1990), a philosopher and transhumanist, defines transhumanism as “a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-prompting principles and values”. Other transhumanists view it as, “a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that we the human species in our current form do not represent the end of our development
In the time of ‘The Time Machine’: Everyone is familiar with the works of science fiction of Herbert George Wells. In literature he(and Jules Verne) is the father of the science fiction genre and a master storyteller in a way that was refreshing and innovating. His style of writing was groundbreaking and ahead of his time. It’s only 30 years later that the term science fiction was coined.. In this paper we will scrutinize one of his most popular stories: ‘The Time Machine’ and its manuscript or
• Mass Medium Technology has made man life easier and have always given wonders. Mass communication which means communicating to the masses(public) at large at the same time, sharing of information, ideas, opinion, happening, informing and educating people, is all what is made possible by the mediums of mass communication and television being one the most powerful medium help us see and hear the world. Television bind the people at large
writers need to be updated because if they are not, they “are apt to fall into writing the same book or the book that is expected of you” (Ellison, 1995: 27, 49). He considered the goal for the writers should be about persuading readers to have “a sense of wonder” that includes the awareness of multiple realities in American culture and acceleration of these realities turning into the possible futures (25). This is exactly what he did in his novel. In Invisible Man, the