IMAGINATION / Dystopia


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mercredi 11 novembre 2020
par agnesueur

Uprising

Uprising - Muse Friday, September 25, 2009 Lead singer Matt Bellamy explained : “The lead single, ‘Uprising’, was kind of inspired by the G20 protests which took place last year. I was in London at the time and I saw it all going on outside where I live.” He added : “I sort of found that whole (...)
vendredi 15 novembre 2019
par agnesueur

Dystopia in the school library... and elsewhere

As part of your assignment to be confronted with more dystopian works, or references to dystopia and the link with their author’s contemporary times, you will present a work around dystopia. You will review what you have read, listened to, watched... ; explaining (spoiling just a little, for (...)
mercredi 6 novembre 2019
par agnesueur

Good night & good luck

Here is a short video, referring to the anti-communist hunt in America under Mac Carthyism, and more precisely in Hollywood, to prepare for the watching of Good night and good luck.
mardi 8 octobre 2019
par agnesueur

Squealer’s speech : the power of words

In the extract " Napoleon’s coup", pick up the rhetorical elements that Squealer uses to persuade the other animals. Recap the figures of speech used and their effect on the audience. Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others. "Comrades," he (...)
vendredi 20 septembre 2019
par agnesueur

Cold War dystopias : Fahrenheit 451 & 1984

Describe the picture (+ type), analyse the elements (colours, position of the elements, attitudes…) and explain its link with the quotation. Describe the pictures (+ type), analyse the elements then explain the link (...)