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Analysis Of The Book ' Black Mirror '

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Black Mirror is a Netflix original British science fiction television series that is macabre and uses science to show that it can be used to have control over people and their lives in the future. This show wonderfully incorporates race, gender, and sexuality as well as other topics such as ableism and classism. In this paper, four distinct episodes in the show that represented these themes were explored. We chose to focus on the episodes “Men Against Fire,” “Fifteen Million Merits,” “San Junipero,” and “White Bear” from the show Black Mirror.
“Men Against Fire”, season 3 episode 5, is set in a dystopian future, where our main protagonist, Stripe, works for a military corporation that hunts and exterminates mutant beings called “Roaches” …show more content…

She is immediately degraded, and asked to show her boobs. Fisher says in her book Gender and the Science of Difference. She says: “Women continued to be perceived as inferior to men, but no longer because they were seen as imperfect males; rather, the multiple biological differences that were identified cast them as weaker, more vulnerable, and so on” (Fisher). This is how women are seen and treated in this episode: as inferior and only useful as sexual objects. Lastly, “Fifteen Million Merits” looks at able-bodyism through the existence of the lemons, or the lower class. These people are only part of the lower class because they are heavy, and are thus unable to keep up with the all-day bike exercises. The lemons are subjected to humiliation on tv shows, are shot in video games, and are badmouthed by those on the bikes, all because they are heavier than everyone else. Using an encapturing story, “Fifteen Million Merits” discussing important current issues through the lens of a dystopic society.
“San Junipero” is season 3 episode 4 of the Black Mirror series and it is the place where the dead can reside forever and the living can visit every Saturday night for a few hours. The two main characters of this episode (Yorkie & Kelly) met at a bar in San Junipero and eventually became a homosexual interracial couple. The article on “Fabulous: Sylvester James, Black Queer Afrofuturism and the Black Fantastic” from the readings in Unit 2 came to my mind as I was

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