![]() ![]() Students then view additional film clips and identify which characteristics of a dystopian society the clip is intended to portray. Next, they identify the protagonist in clips from The Matrix and then discuss how the clips extend and confirm their understanding of a dystopia. They first explore the definition and characteristics of utopian and dystopian societies, and then compare and contrast the two using a Venn diagram online tool. In this lesson plan, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. Brave New World shares a vision of scientific advancements and combines them into a dystopian society, challenged by the story’s protagonist. Set mainly in a futuristic World State whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932), Huxley presented his vision of dystopia. ![]() ![]() He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. He wrote close to fifty books-both novels and non-fiction works-as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. Aldous Huxley was born on this day in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England. ![]()
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