dystopian texts to reference in unseen section
- Created by: kate1711
- Created on: 23-01-23 10:03
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- dystopian texts
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- eco-dystopia - presents a world affected by illness/environmental disaster
- main character = snowman avoids the sun, jealous of children who can swim in the sea
- 'rosy, deadly glow', 'shrieks of the birds'
- semantic field of waste and decay
- jargon - BlyssPluss
- mention of Red Sox - world gone wrong?
- Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill
- written in 2014 - social media coming to prominence
- girls' names are not capitalised to show how little they matter
- girls are called 'eves' - prepared for marriage to men
- women are no longer able to be biologically born so they are artificially creates
- specific jargon - SleepSound, Messages, Ceremony (all capitalised)
- The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- written in 1955 - height of cold war
- importance of dreams - opens with a dream
- world gone wrong - regression, doesn't know what aeroplanes are or a city
- ethnic cleansing by Wakunians similar to Holocaust
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
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