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Dystopian Literature 1 Justice
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What does Plato say about justice in Republic? We're not quite sure...it was all Greek to us. 

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Dystopian Literature 2 Classism
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How does a class division form in a society? What's the highest position in a society? We know the answer to the second question: it's that wise ol...

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Dystopian Literature 3 Kings and Speeches
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According to Plato, who would be an ideal candidate for a leader, and what type of speech should be allowed in society? Man, this Plato dude was su...

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Dystopian Literature 16 Time Machine Dystopia 131 Views


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How is the world created in  The Time Machine considered a dystopia? And have you ever considered that if time travel is eventually invented, logically, there would be people from the future living amongst us. The fact that no triumphant time traveler has come to boast to their ancestors means that time travel will never happen. ...Sorry to be a party pooper.

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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature time machine dystopia

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last month How is the world created in the time

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machine considered a dystopia What h g wells depicts in

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the future society of the eloi and the morlocks is

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a world with no order So he's basically saying what

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are the natural consequences of letting this social darwinism take

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its course of just letting the social processes that currently

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exists keep going and going and involving and changing And

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what you end up with is this kind of disaster

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world where nobody is very smart and some people are

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very scary and they haven't made very many advances in

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technology The world has kind of if anything stood still

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and maybe regressed and so you can see that as

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a social commentary h g wells also thinks that society

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needs some structure that it needs to be pointed in

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the right direction He doesn't think that that structure is

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the philosophies that are currently floating around in his society

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but he does want there to be some set of

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guidelines for how people should behave going forward How is

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the world created in the time machine considered a dystopia

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