Real-World DystopiaIsaac Neumann, Tatyana Okanlomo, Manya Lamba, Kalina NeubertMs. MoreauLanguage Arts; Block HOctober 2016

Fig. 1. Kowloon Walled City (Quattrocchi)

What is a dystopia?

• Dystopia is a place where conditions are terrible, with society having a harsh or controlling government, or the environment has changed.

• Did you know? The word they used to use for “dystopia” was actually “cacotopia”, derived from the greek word “kakos” meaning “bad or wicked”

Our task • Our research question asked us to connect dystopian art, literature,

movie and other forms of media to real life, in order to show what the creators wanted to say about our modern world

Dystopia Reality

How is apparent in our ?

Lois Lowry – The Giver

• All are safe and equal; adversely effects freedom

• Can connect to wearing uniforms in school

• Safety is EVERYTHING; individuality doesn’t matter

Fig. 2. Giver Cover (Lowry)

Veronica Roth - Divergent• Lack of individuality due to segregation, increases equality and

safety• Similar to Adolf Hitler's ideals towards individuality• Committed mass genocide against Jews, “…communists,

homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and trade unionists, among others.” (according to the writers at biography.com )

• Individuality must be valued.

Fig. 3. Divergent Cover (Roth) Fig. 4. Hitler Photograph (Unknown)

George Orwell

Fig. 5. 1984 Cover (Orwell) Fig. 6. Animal Farm Cover (Orwell)

Animal Farm• Draws parallels to Soviet Union• Focuses on Communism; Marxism, Leninsim, Stalinism• “All animals are equal, some animals are just more equal than

others”

Fig. 7. Soviet Union (Unknown)

1984• Creates a country under totalitarianism• Can relate to totalitarianism in Russia and Spain

Fig. 8. 1984 Slogan (Unknown)

Nivanh Chanthara- Kowloon

Fig. 9. City of Kowloon Art (Chanthara) • Nivanh Chanthara- Artist inspired by dystopia

• Artwork features Kowloon, a modern day dystopia

• His series “HongWrong”, about Hong Kong’s dense architecture and overpopulation

Fabrice Monteiro- “The Prophecy”• Inspired by environmental

degradation in West Africa• Grew up there, after returning

four years ago he was astounded by the change in the past 30 years

• “It had gotten very dirty,” – Monteiro during his chat with the International Peace Institute

Fig. 10. “The Prophecy” artwork (Fabrice Monteiro)

Irish Potato Farmers

• Potato crop from Ireland affected by Mexican volcano

• Killed off nearly 750,000 people• Catastrophe• An event that could have lead to a

dystopia

Dystopia in our world?

• Are there elements of dystopia in our world? Yes.

• Our world shows many examples of dystopia, which artists such as Nivanh Chanthara, and writers such as George Orwell and Lois Lowry try to express through their pieces of art and writing.

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