Comparative Study- Utopias and Dystopias

Thesis: Composers offer insights of alternate realitys exploring morality, behaviour and power to convey a didactic purpose of
which reflects alterations to government, institutions and society that can be used to control and manipulate individuals and
groups.

Topic: Utopias and Dystopias

Concepts: Power, Authority, Corruption and Fear

Themes: Propaganda by media, totalitarianism, Christian fundamentalism, Capitalism/Dictatorship, Conformity, Racialism,

Freedom, and anarchy, Communism, Oppression and Suppression on individuality, Facism, Socialism

Context:

Allegorical Novella Animal Farm, George Orwell 1945

Orwell was a socialist who opposed the soviet union

Based on Russian capitalist soviet union

It is similar to an Aesops Fable, and uses animalism to retell the soviet history with euphemism

Napoleon Stalin

Snowball Trotsky

Tsar Nicolas 2 abdicated and lenin gone

Stalin Orchestrated plan to overthrow Trotsky where he fled to mexico and was assassinated

NKVD- Secret Police (Dogs)

Karl Max was a philosopher whose prosperities of a shift in government stances and reign will consistently change and worsen
the state of the country

V for Vendetta James Mcteigue 2006

Post Modern/Post-11/Post London bombings (Terrorism)

Rebuke of Thatcherism

Sutler and thatcher were both in conservative party

Facism

Allegory to England 1980-90s (end of cold war)

Alternate Reality of an exaggeration to what could have been under Thatcer rule

Satire and allusion to sutler as hitler

V is morality and communal righteousness

Reflection of Nazism and Current Dictatorships

Country was under major recession

Topic Sentence 1)

Leaders of nations can manipulate, ideologist values and attitudes in society by instating authority and fear into complaisant
individuals ultimately exploiting conformity with suppression of individuality by promoting homogenous attitudes.
Emancipation scene, monologue of valerys vignette showcasing the black bagging of the homosexual couple. Symbolising fear
invoked from surveillance and conformity to homogenous nature of society where by the black bag is use to eliminate outliers
and displays the connection with eves parents. Homosexuality. Authority is conducted by the surveilant acts of the
government.

In a follow on of the False flag terrorism scene it is seen that those with black bags are used in the government experiments in
order to create the ultimate weapon with total hegemonic domination.

Hue, Saturation

Non diegetic sounds of Valeries dioluge

Tranquility and utopia before the influence of suttlers government

Cross cutting between valeries and eves current state with emancipation

People should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people

Murder of sheep, pigs, ducks for allying with the villainized snowballs

Those who go against napoleon and ally with the enemy will fare the same punishment

To that horror we must all come- cows pigs, hens, sheep everyone. Even horses and the dogs have no better fate. You boxer
the very day that those great muscles of yours lose power, Jones will sell you to the knacker.

Topic Sentence2)

Power is the ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others and can often manipulate the enforcer leading to corruption
in order to maintain governance.

Since mankinds dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility of our livesby doing so they took our power.

What we need right now is a clear message to the peoplethis message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every
radio seen on every television, this message must resound throughout the entire interlink...we stand on the blink of oblivion, I
want every man woman and child to recognize how close we are to chaos.

Their target should not be an enemy to the country but rather the country itself

No one believes more than comrade Napolean that all animals are equal, He would be only too happy to let you make your
decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decision.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, from man to pig and from pig to man again , it was impossible to say which was
which.

4 legs good 2 legs bad -> 4 legs good 2 legs better, All animals are equal but some are more equal