Connections: Power & Control
Short Stories
The Machine Stops (1909) by E.M. Forster.
The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson.
Examination Day (1958) by Henry Slesar.
Harrison Bergeron (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We ate the Children Last (2004) by Yann Martel.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Non-Fiction Prose Texts
A Modest Proposal (1729) - an essay by Jonathan Swift.
Teen Opinion - How bleak should Dystopian Fiction be? (2015)
Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: AI, Shame and Lots of Cameras (2018) - Paul Mozur, NY Times.
12 Signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term (July 2020) - by Jonathan Greenberg, Washington Post.
Poetry
The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Elliot.
No Ordinary Sun (1959) by Hone Tuwhare.
We Didn't Start the Fire (1989) song by Billy Joel - Lyrics.
Your Utopia, Our Dystopia (2015) by hanalesmith.
2023 - Because we got it wrong (2021) by Dave Conlin.
Novels
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smith's Dream by C.K. Stea
Blind Faith by Ben Elton
Anthem by Ayn Rand
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyhn
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Copies of these can be borrowed from the English Department.
Plays
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Copies of these can be borrowed from the English Department.
Films
Some suggested films (links only work if you are logged into an ŌC account)