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The dictionary defines a dystopia as a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror. These scenarios have been the inspiration for countless novels and movies. They reflect our darkest fears and sometimes, actual elements in the modern world.
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George Lucas made his name with Star [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:02 am
Filed under All, Literature, Movies · Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Big Brother, Blade Runner, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, Controversial, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, dystopia, fahrenheit 451, film, films, George Orwell, Harrison Ford, metropolis, Nineteen Eighty-Four, orson welles, Richard Burton, stanley kubrick, the handmaid's tale, The Terminator, The Trial, thx 1138
These writers, musicians, and painters created masterpieces in the realms of literature, music, and art. At different stages of their lives, every person on this list suffered from severe hardships, mental illness and feelings of loneliness and despair. All of them suffered for their art in order to create legacies of great imagination and epic [...]
Posted by Heather Matthews on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:03 am
Filed under All, Literature, Music, People · Tagged Add new tag, alcohol, artists, authors, bohemian, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, gambling, gambling addiction, George Orwell, haunting, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, heroin, homosexual, Kurt Cobain, Literature, Ludwig van Beethoven, musician, painters, passion, playwright, poets, suicide, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Thomas De Quincey, tortured artists, Vincent van Gogh
Throughout the history of the world, starting with the church, censors have been put on many different things. The church was able to create a list of banned books, and many of the books were burned. The first list of banned books came from Pope Paul IV who established The Index of Prohibited Books to [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:02 am
Filed under All, Literature, Politics, Religion, Sex, Shopping · Tagged 1984, authors, banned, banned books, Books, Brave New World, Candide, catcher in the rye, Controversial, controversy, funny, George Orwell, Harry Potter, homosexual, Huckleberry Finn, humber humbert, Humor, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, innocence, Literature, Lolita, magazines, Mark Twain, nabokov, salinger, Sex, The color Purple, To Kill a Mockingbird, violence, Voltaire
