ENGLI201 30 - Lecture notes 6 PDF

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The lecturer was Kirstine Moffat...

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Why it matters? ● Read texts to understand our world we live in now ● Range of styles: Authors are linked by a similar conviction that words have the power to motivate and inspire us. ● Inspire us to be people who care and think ● Confront very crucial 20 and 21st century ideologies. ● Connecting us to other minds and views of the world ● Utopian in what they ask of us as readers ● Self-affirming: Individualism, parts of a community, choice, ● Do the right thing, do the kind thing ● The material world: Material comfort seems to be mixed up with comfort, freedom of anxiety ● Dystopia: constant anxiety, privation, starvation ● Environmental: Utopia: Nature, new city in brave new world ● Dystopia: Human carelessness, pollution, destruction ● Political: utopia: tolerance and acceptance, civil rights and dystopia: race gender class segregation ● Intellectual: Utopia: free thought, things which may censor what we may want to say, dystopia: uniformity ● Emotional: Utopia: kindness, empathy, compassion, inclusion. Dystopia: cruelty, torture, judgement ● Memory: Utopia: Conscious of the past, connectedness to family/culture ● Challenging the world we inhabit, we need to create our own Utopia in a way. ●...