新知識
◎The Giver by Lois Lowry
★知識的給予和擁有
★反烏托邦小說
★Apple represents as free will 自由意志
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory.
The Giver
◎反烏托邦小說 eg.The Giver, The Hunger Game
●The Hunger Game
◎Dystopia/ Utopia 反烏托邦(目的：思考當今事物）/ 烏托邦
★The characteristic of Utopia:
1) dehumanization
2) dark, post-nuclear (scene)
3) Big Brother (female): they play as God
●Brave New World
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly change society.
Brave New World
Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206
The Tempest
●1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. The tyranny is ostensibly overseen by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake.
1984
◎Biblical/ Mythological/ Literary allusion文化典故
◎ It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (song by Bob Dylan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7ngGxEusE
Bob Dylan
◎Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?
★sex, violence and family
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch Magazine. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she was inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The story was originally named "Death and the Maiden". The main character of Oates' story is Connie.
●Jalopy: an old car
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?◎Persephone 吃果子女人（painting)
Persephone is a 1939 painting by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts the Greek goddess Persephone, resting nude by a tree in a rural Midwestern setting. Benton, dressed in farmer's clothes, plays the role of Pluto and peeks from behind the tree.
Persephone
生字筆記
●sacred: 神聖的
eg. He made a sacred promise.
alleyway (建築物間的）小巷
gawk : to look at something or someone in a stupid or rude way
eg. Don't sit there gawking like that - give me a hand!
chunky :used to describe clothes that are thick and heavy, or jewellery made of large pieces
eg. a chunky necklace
pick at/ scorne: to be very critical of someone or something
eg. Why are you always picking at me?
smirk: a smile that expresses satisfaction or pleasure about having done something or knowing something that is not known by someone else
eg."I told you it would end in disaster," said Polly with a self-satisfied smirk on her face.
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