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Subido el 25 de mayo de 2020 por Sandra G.

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Natalia Caprile discusses Dystopian Novels as she has just read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

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Hello again and welcome to another week of videos. As with all of the last weeks, my topic for this 00:00:00
week's videos is something that has been inspired by an activity that I've been doing during 00:00:07
quarantine and that is reading. So I've been doing a lot of reading during this time because I have 00:00:14
a bit of extra free time, more than I have in a normal situation, and I have just started reading 00:00:21
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. And it inspired me to talk about one of my favorite genres of 00:00:29
literature, which is dystopian literature. So the definition of a dystopia for me is really tied 00:00:37
with the definition of a utopia. So a utopia is an ideal community or society. Everything is, 00:00:45
you know, supposedly perfect. You can think of the Garden of Eden, maybe in the Bible is what 00:00:53
I like to think of as an imagined utopia. And a dystopia is kind of the foil to that utopia. So 00:00:59
it is an imagined or invented society in which there is great suffering or injustice. 00:01:06
And usually that comes with a government or controlling class or person that is totalitarian 00:01:13
or maybe it's post-apocalyptic. Maybe there was this big apocalypse or an apocalyptic event and 00:01:20
this society has formed after, and it's dystopian. So some examples are, in literature, you can see 00:01:28
The Giver. That's one of my favorite novels, and I will be talking about it in the next video. 00:01:37
There's obviously Fahrenheit 451. You have 1984, and maybe some more modern examples are The Hunger 00:01:42
Games or Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Hunger Games have been made into a movie series. 00:01:51
Handmaid's Tale has been made into a TV series as well. 00:01:57
Some people ask me, isn't that just depressing to, you know, read dystopian novels? 00:02:01
Doesn't it remind you of all the bad in the world or things like that? 00:02:08
And my answer to that is, you know, it could be for some. 00:02:11
Maybe it is a little bit depressing for some people to read dystopian novels. 00:02:14
But for me, I am someone who loves to think about society and the choices that we make 00:02:20
as a society and how we organize, um, which is one of the reasons I majored in sociology in college. 00:02:26
Um, and to me, a really fascinating element of dystopian novels, um, or a lot of dystopian 00:02:33
novels is that many of these works, uh, talk about dystopian societies as being a result 00:02:39
of people originally trying to make society better. So maybe a society is trying to become 00:02:46
less violent and because of that or more equal and because of that they take away certain freedoms 00:02:53
and of course in a dystopian novel that fails and it results in a dystopian society in a negative 00:03:00
a society that's negative for a lot of other reasons but I think it's interesting to see the 00:03:09
ways that these societies fail especially if they're originally trying to do good and I think 00:03:14
it can serve as a cautionary tale in a really interesting and unique way. So for me, that's 00:03:21
one of the reasons that I love dystopian literature, and I'm excited to talk with you about it a bit 00:03:26
more in the coming videos. 00:03:31
Idioma/s:
en
Autor/es:
Natalia Caprile
Subido por:
Sandra G.
Licencia:
Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
Visualizaciones:
92
Fecha:
25 de mayo de 2020 - 0:58
Visibilidad:
Público
Centro:
IES SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
Duración:
03′ 33″
Relación de aspecto:
1.78:1
Resolución:
960x540 píxeles
Tamaño:
121.54 MBytes

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