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A utopia is all the funnier the further away it is from the sensible world.

Theodor Herzl

Oscar Wilde

Progress is only the realization of utopias.

Utopia and Dystopia

conception of the future

Alia Heinecke, Emily Baumgarten

Structure

01

definition

02

types

03

brave new world

04

the hunger games

05

subtopics

06

group task

VS

definition

Utopia

Dystopia

VS

  • Draft of a conception of the future
  • ideal image of social conditions
  • Fantastic idea without any basis in reality

  • frightening/ undesirable conception of the future
  • also anti-utopia

definition

Utopia

Dystopia

Types

political -

social -

religious -

scientific-technical -

Types

political -

  • criticize injustice, inequality and oppression
  • form fictitious alternative

social -

religious -

scientific-technical -

Types

political -

  • criticize injustice, inequality and oppression
  • form fictitious alternative

social -

  • end of exploitation
  • redistribution of goods

religious -

scientific-technical -

Types

political -

  • criticize injustice, inequality and oppression
  • form fictitious alternative

social -

  • end of exploitation
  • redistribution of goods

religious -

  • idea achieved by God's grace
  • no preaching of a new world
  • renewal of the old world

scientific-technical -

Types

political -

  • criticize injustice, inequality and oppression
  • form fictitious alternative

social -

  • end of exploitation
  • redistribution of goods

religious -

  • idea achieved by God's grace
  • no preaching of a new world
  • renewal of the old world

scientific-technical -

  • human living conditions
  • genetic engineering -> defeating disease, hunger and death
  • metaphysical entities
  • artificial intelligence

Types

Brave new world

  • Author: Aldous Huxley
  • Originally published: 1932
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Text: novel
  • Genre: Science fiction, dystopian fiction
  • has been frequently banned and challenged

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.

- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206

Mustapha Mond


John the Savage


Bernard Marx




Lenina Crowne

Helmholtz Watson


Constellation of central figures




(exiles)

(exiles)

(debates)

(loves)

(the World Controller)

(Bernard's friend)

(son, born of parents from the bnw)

(Alpha-Plus psychologist)

(conventional young woman, drawn towards danger)

designing a baby with the required features/characteristics

the process of "making" a new baby

society designed to be perfect, thought through to the last detail

genetic engineering

the laboratory

manipulated society

Would you prefer a world in which you could not become unhappy?

What would be the advantages of such a world?

the hunger games

  • Author: Suzanne Collins
  • Originally published: December 8, 2011
  • Country: United States
  • Text: dystopian novel
  • Series: The Hunger Games trilogy
  • Genres: Young adult fiction, Science fiction, Thriller

Gale Hawthorne


Katniss Everdeen


Rue (Tribut)


Peeta Mellark


Primrose Everdeen (sister)




President Coin (District 13)

President Snow (Capitol)


Constellation of central figures



the game starts in the arena with 24 tributes

rich people, which are not living in the Districs watch the game

the draw of the tributes, Every district must give two tributes, a girl and a boy

the arena

the spectators

the reaping

social classes

wealth and poverty

power and oppression

Robots/artificial intelligence

Use the given impulses and create your own vision of the future in the sense of a utopia or dystopia.

The direction you want to go is up to you.

Present your results when the time is up.

Group Task

  • https://diezukunft.de/review/film/brave-new-world-huxley-als-serie
  • https://www.pinterest.de/pin/this-coursehero-infographic-highlights-quotes-and-themes-from-brave-new-world--156077943315551672/
  • https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/infographic/
  • https://www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/10-ways-the-hunger-games-is-our-present-and-our-future-3-district-12-where-you-can-starve-to-death-in-safety
  • https://www.pinterest.de/genevieveruth/hunger-games-capitol-soiree/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7iKN5lEao
  • https://medium.com/@meganxburbage/how-does-the-hunger-games-criticise-american-society-729cd9d73bb6
  • https://dietributevonpanem.fandom.com/wiki/Distrikt_12

Sources

pictures

  • https://www.storyboardthat.com/de/lesson-plans/die-hunger-spiele-von-suzanne-collins
  • games/hunger-games-book-theme/https://www.hypable.com/the-hunger
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tribute_von_Panem_-_The_Hunger_Games
  • https://planbar-magazin.de/tribute-von:panem:zusammenfassun9/
  • Buch: "Brave new World" by Aldous Huxley
  • Lektüre: "Aldous Huxley Brave New World - Schöne neue Welt" by Kathleen Ellenrieder
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ne_neue_Welt
  • https://medium.com/@sylberno/robots-utopia-vs-dystopia-6e51dcc41ad8

Sources

pictures