Love In Dystopia Research Paper

Now for the next summary it will be based on Shirley Jackson” The Lottery”, it takes place on a warm day in June and the villagers is gathering in the town square to participate in the lottery that is hosted by Mr. Summer every year. It starts with the children arriving first who begin to collect stones until their parents come.

On June 27, the citizens of a small town gather in the center of town to hold the annual lottery. The children who had recently ended school for the summer arrive first, the boys gathering stones into their pockets or into piles, and the girls gathering and talking among themselves. The men come, talking about crops, weather, and taxes. Next then the women, greeting each other, gossiping and eventually joining their husbands. Parents start calling their children to come join them and all the families stand and wait for the

Cults manipulate their impressionable members by giving them a polarized view of the world making them think that their group is good and anything from the outside of it is bad. Leaders often exploit the feelings of the people affiliated with them using techniques designed to stimulate emotions in order to influence a response or action. Cults demand an undying loyalty those who wish to leave or double-cross them are completely cut off and shunned, in severe situations they are punished with violence and threats. Their main tactics to keep people under their control are using fear and intimidation against them, feeding them lies, and maintaining facades to hide the true colors of their union.

A recurring theme throughout dystopias involves the main character going against social norms by pursuing a romantic relationship. Romantic relationships in dystopian worlds can range anywhere from a purely physical attraction to a deep connection between two characters. However, the great majority of dystopian relationships have flaws from the beginning, bringing up the question: can love really exist in a dystopian world? In a dystopian world, such as that of 1984 or Brave New World, betrayal often serves as the driving force behind the end of a relationship. With betrayal prevalent in the majority of dystopian relationships, and the fact that most citizens have a skewed view of love based on their government’s rule, all relationships, with or without love present, end in betrayal.

In the mid 1900s, Harry Harlow took investigated a new field of research and began studying the components between infant-mother love, especially the importance of contact comfort. Harlow was interested in manipulating the mother figure of infants to identify the root of bonds and love; but since this could easily become unethical to study with humans, he used rhesus monkeys. Based on Freud’s hypothesis, one would think that the importance of receiving milk would be the primary root of a bond between the infant and the mother, but Harlow found that contact comfort was incredibly important, even more so than receiving food (Hock, 2013).

In Barbara Graham’s “The Future of Love”, she says long-term fairy tale romance inspires true love believers and their perspective towards love itself. Graham expresses the idea that to her, a lot of relationships fail because both partners in the relationship fall in love with an idealistic view of who the other person is. She explains that couples jump into relationships thinking their significant other was this perfect image they made him/her out to be only to come to realization that it was a figment of their imagination. Graham also defies the sappy happy endings that she says everyone believes in since heartbroken romantics oversee a lot of the incompatibilities and faults in a relationship to make it more

With its quaint and picturesque introduction, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson paints a story of individuals who blindly and unquestionably follow tradition. The village lottery is an annual tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation, it is a part of the villagers’ culture. It is a tradition in which all three hundred villagers; men, women and children, participate in. A list of all the names of the village families and their households is made, when their names are called, one by one they draw a slip of paper from a black worn out, falling apart wooden box. There are specific rules set in place of who should draw the slips of paper from the black

The tradition says that every year on June 27th the people of the town must meet at the town square for the ceremony. As the townspeople arrive they stand around and make it look like a fun celebration. There are people of all ages planning to participate. The kids are running around and playing with rocks and making the assumption that it is a game, but as the last parents arrive things get serious and the children go to stand with their families as everyone waits for the lottery to begin.

An old tradition in an even older town has begun tearing apart a small community. Last week, Tessie Hutchinson won the annual Little Town lottery. In Little Town, a village just outside of Big Town, all the townspeople gathered in the main square. It was a seemingly normal summer day, however a large cloud hung over them all.

    Around ten o 'clock, June 27th was a very vivid day in the lives of the villagers, It was a beautiful summer day, the wind was slight and the flowers in full bloom. . In larger nearby towns, the lottery is started on the 26th, but this community was modest in size, so the event only took approximately three hours to complete, allowing the villagers to make it home for noon lunch. The children are out of school for the summer, so all come down to the town-square, where the lottery takes place, first. The juvenile boys in the community begin to make a pile of rocks in a corner, guarding them against other children. “Soon the men began to gather. surveying their own children, speaking of planting and

Edmund Burke once said, “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as hate.” In other words, when one becomes enveloped in the emotion of hate, similarly to that of love, it can alter one's thought and ability to make decisions. Love and hate are the two most powerful emotions and are seen at the core of humanity; however, it is ironic that such strong emotions can be so easily manipulated. George Orwell considers this idea in his novel 1984 and reveals the relationship between love and hate in a dystopian society. Throughout the novel, it is clear to see how one is able to gain love and power based on the manipulation of hate and fear; this can be seen through the analysis of the Party’s views of Emmanuel

boys gathering stones for the lottery. The rest of the villagers gather in the square. The

Who do we love? The phase that love is blind is common amongst society but in reality, love is often quite prejudiced. Sociological studies suggest people do not just fall in love with anyone, instead, we tend to fall in love with people who share our race, ethnicity, religion, age, and social class. According to the Guardian (2012), people are more likely than ever to marry into their own class, as a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research showed. Marrying across class lines could be challenging as it means moving outside their comfort zones, into the uncharted territory of partners with a different level of wealth and education (Lewin 2005).

“Love in a Fallen City” written in 1943 by Chinese writer Eileen Chang(1920-1995). Eileen Chang is one of the most writers of twentieth- century in China. She was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Chang’s grandfather is Hang peilun who is son in law to Li hongzhang, an influential official in Qing dynasty. Her grandmother Li juyu is the oldest daughter of Li hongzhang. Chang studied literature at the university of Hong Kong. However, in 1941 Japanese attacked on Shanghai, and she had to returned to occupied Shanghai. At that time, she was able to publish some stories and essays which made her to be a literary star. But, due to some reason that The rise of Communist influence made a difficult for her to stay in Shanghai, and she

Love can be defined as honesty, trust and respect; it occurs when two people touch each other 's soul. Every series, every story and every movie speaks about how two people fall in love and live happily ever after. All stories come to that same conclusion but what happens when two people don’t belong to the same social class. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about Jay Gatsby, a man who is part of the working class that becomes wealthy through illegal acts and throws extremely corrupted parties every Saturday night. In this novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the lack of true love between Tom, Gatsby and Daisy. The protagonist, Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, a woman that is married to Tom Buchanan, a very wealthy man and he believes that the amount of money he possess will change Daisy’s heart. When Daisy discovers that Tom is cheating, he uses his status and power to deceive her in order to fulfill his desires. Tom, Gatsby and Daisy represent the upper class which with closer analysis demonstrates the Marxist theory by Karl Marx. Marx explains it as the practice of socialism which includes materialism, class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of class stratification. By critically analyzing these characters from a Marxist perspective, the matter of the