... make a protagonist female without bringing with it the implication of a feminist agenda. The energy that went into such feminist utopias as Joanna Russ" The Female Man (1975) and Sally Gearhart's The Wanderground (1980) also inspired their opposite, the feminist anti-utopia or dystopia. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale ... Clearly the concept of a dystopian society was nothing new to the writers of the 60's. Indeed, you can the concept of dystopia is as old utopia itself, although the actual literary genre is much more recent than utopia. There had been a number of precedents set...

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... insight to social commentary. One his best known works was "The Martian Chronicles", a collection of interrelated stories concerning colonization of the planet Mars, those attracted readers of both young and old. In it Bradbury showed the strengths and weaknesses of human beings as they encountered a new world. Ray Bradbury grew up in Waukegan and in Los Angeles, where he founded a magazine ... called Futuria Fantasia while in high school. He sold his first short story when he was 21 years old. His early stories were published in pulp magazines, but Bradbury later published stories in s...

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... be strong and independent and that she can never deny the fact that she is woman, and thereby weak and vulnerable. She can never be as strong or powerful as a man and is destined to the weaker subservient position. Lavinia, despite her strong appearance, gets frightened (Lavonia felt her heart going loudly within her and she was cold too) when she ... are distrustful (not one of the three male characters in the story was trusted). Thought Officer Kennedy was a policemen, Lavinia did not trust him (I won"t walk the ravine with any man.) Tom Dillon too was not trusted, and thought he was ...

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A man can achieve immortality by seeing achievement in his work. Author, Mary Shelley lived in an era where technology and the idea of science were beginning to rise. During the beginning ... ; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the Invisible world with its own shadows." (Shelley 28-29) Waldman reflects on the ideas of man harvesting the powers of the earth for himself. In this quote, you start to get a feel for what Victor must have been thinking when he decided to create the monster ... ...

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... away in violent winds. There is saving grace for the house, though. Because it has been given humanistic qualities, it is also presumed to be subject to the flaws of man, and this is evidenced in its actions. At one point the mice supposedly seem to be agitated at having to keep the floors clean during off-times as when the ... ...

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