1. Dystopia throughout the ages

2. Utopia (Sir Thomas Moore) 1516
What? The first use of the term utopia meaning “no place” Why is it interesting: This definition of what utopia means and its detailed description of a utopia is very dystopian and reflects todays society immensely.
Talk of “utopian” charecteristics
Theme Control and morality

3. The development of dystopia
1500s 1600s Creation of the New world order
/1840: Industrial revolution and increase in corporate power
Late 1800s: Rise of science fiction and misuse of technology (mass media, genetic engineering, drugs, etc)
Early 1900s (WW1 WW2): The power of totalitarianism, technology and religion
Mid/late 1900s: Manipulation of nature
2000s: Dystopia in movies. Cyber space, overpopulation, inequality
2017: Hacking, climate change, global epidemics

4. GULIVERS TRAVEL (1726)
What? Gulliver travels to several different countries including Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Laputa. Why is it awesome? Each place Gulliver travels to exhibits concerns of modern society in a distorted satirical manner.
Talk about each nations relevance to other dystopian lit
Control, morality

5. Other books before the 19th century
A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19– (1835). A city where African Americans (at the time were commonly slaves) and Caucasians live together, married, to achieve racial equality but this leads to moral degradation, indolence, and political and economical decline. Its hilarious.
Paris in the twentieth century (1863) Jules Verne. Atwood's Oryx's and Crake inspiration.
Erewhon (1872) Samuel Butler : A recently discovered utopia that turns out to be a dystopia that turns out to be a satire of the idea of a utopia.
Looking Backwards (1888) Edward Bellamy Slept too long and woke up in a social utopia.
The Time Machine (1895) HG Wells: Exaggeration, unrealistic yet terrifying development of class systems as Eloi and Morlocks
Go through themes of time and development of dystopia. Discusses social injustice, race, the rise in understanding of technology.

6. books during the early 1900s (1900-1950)
The Lunar trilogy ( ) Jerzy Żuławsk: Astronauts find a colony on mars who have lost their knowledge of the world and are now a religious cult, allegories to Jesus’s death and revolutionized Polish and European science fiction.
Iron Heel (1901) Jack London
Lord of the world (1907) Robert Hugh Benson : Marxism and the labour party are leading ideology's but is fixated on the rule of antichrist and the Christian idea of the end of the world and how it could occur in the 1900s
R.U.R (1920) Karel Capeck: Science fiction play close to that off the Necromancer, robot rebellion yet robots are described as flesh and blood, easily mistaken for humans.
Swastika Night (1937) Katharine Burdekin: “Hitlerism”
Ape and the Essence (1948) Aldous Huxley Societies growing stupidity and ignorance/misuse of intellect
Religion and science themes and how their opposition sparked concern and controvery

7. Brave new world (1931)
What? Sex, drugs, brainwashing, and the best bit, no sense of purpose or individuality!
Why is it important
Einstein’s theory of general relativity Fords first automobile and mass production of telephones, radios, and cars. Soviet Union in Russia. (Unitary state and centralised economy), suppression of opposing political power’s. Hitler youth indoctrinating the young, mass war propaganda (Hitler speeches/ sleep learning) Creepy but amazing.

8. Fahrenheit 451(1953)
What? F451 is the temperature books burn at, and that’s all Guy Montags job is as a fireman. Burn books due to its irrelevance to modern days elevated nature.
Why is it important?
“Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! For the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams
So various, so beautiful, so new
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night”
Dover Beach 1867
Captain Beatty: O Brian McCarthyism (with some libraries burning new forbidden books under Truman’s presidency), mass media increasing and Bradbury stated he wrote this about his “fear of mass media removing interest in literature”, blacklisting of ‘Hollywood ten’, witnessing of the Golden Age of radio and then the Golden age of TV.

9. books in the 1960s-1980s (manipulation of nature)
Clockwork orange (1962) Anthony Burgees
Facial Justice (1960) LP Hartley: Everyone has surgery to appear ‘basic’. Nobody is “facially over privileged/under privileged”, or different in any manner, yet the mayor of the society is exposed by the protagonist for his heart shaped birthmark.
The sheep look up (1972) John Brunner's: Environmental degradation in the USA

10. Those who walk away from omelas (1973)
What? A short story of a utterly perfect human society where there is no error and all life is beautiful and innocent Why is it important? It poses important questions on morality, consciousness and what we believe is right or wrong.
morality

11. Watchmen DC comics
What? Ozymandias achieves peace by mass murder and super heroes/ general people who want to do good like Doctor Manhattan are framed and ridiculed. Why is it important? Are false facts better than the ugly truth? Is justice as pretty as it looks, or does chaos need to occur for peace
Are false facts better than the ugly truth? Is justice as pretty as it looks, or does chaos need to occur for peace

12. What do they all have in common?
Suppression of intellect
Nature and earth
Catalyze and exaggerate contemporary concerns
Sex
Control
Consciousness
Morality
Religion and the Bible
Subjective
Inaction

13. Awesome links
- a ted ed animation of the origins and development of dystopia in history. - the idea that a utopia will always become a dystopia. deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf- pdf for the short story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”. Its amazing and its 5 pages, so win win