1.Go to the Wikipedia pages for the films. After reading the descriptions of these two pieces of literature, can you give your opinion on whether the Wikipedia entries are accurate. Check three of the links in blue at the bottom of the page to “make sure”...
(FYI - make sure you read the “Reception” part of the F451 entry about the job the dual role actor did while filming)
I think the wikipedia is a very useful tool for us about learning. It gives me a lot information about SUAS and Fahrenheit 451 and describs them very well. It is a nice and convenient way for me to understand the movies. Wikipedia gives me more details about background, characters, summaries and so on. One thing is when I was looking though the wikipedia about Fahrenheit 451, I found something difference from what I watched. From the wikipedia, the lady, Clarisse would not ask how a thing was done, but why. Later, he finds out that Clarisse has been killed in a car accident, but in the movie, she didn't die. Maybe the movie is different with novel. I have a little confused here.
2. Speculate as to why we would be including these two pieces of literature in a course when we also study 1984. You should go and check the Wikipedia entry for this novel as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
I think we are including these two pieces of literature in the course when we also study 1984, because all those are talking about we have the rights to think and say whatever we want. It means " freedom of speech", but one thing very important for us is we have to take the responsibilies for our actions, no matter the consequences is good or not. Most bad things happened in the stories because of society.
3. What does the term “dystopia” mean, anyway? Can you give me another example, say one from real life?
"Dystopia" means a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding, or an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be. From the wikipedia, A dystopia is regarded as a sort of negative utopia and is often characterized by an authoritarian ortotalitarian form of government. Dystopias usually feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and constant states of warfare or violence. Dystopias often explore the concept of technology going "too far" and how humans individually and en masse use technology. A dystopian society is also often characterized by mass poverty for most of its inhabitants and a large military-like police force.
As a real life, I heard from my friend who is from Columbia. She told me all people in her family have drugs except her. Nobody can stop drugs in that place. Also there are a lot of fighting there, and no place is safe. I think that is a dystopia. I can't believe that.
4.“Mindless entertainment would replace recreational free thinking.” With reference to the film Fahrenheit 451, and maybe SUAS, can you provide evidence for this statement?
From the SUAS, Natalie said something about the President of America. Then her band lost their fans who started against them after their speech. From the Fahrenheit 451, people mustn't read the book which would make people unhappy and antisocial so they believe that and they stop reading. Even you read, the firemen would come to your house and burn books. All of them show me we can't do whatever we like, and if you did the same thing a lot, you would believe maybe they were right. It is like a brain washing. Like now, we can use the interner to search whatever we want. We don't need thinking so we would lose the ability of recreational free thinking.
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