Social Commentary In Lacie Pound's Black Mirror

Whether we like it or not, conflict is a part of everyday lives. It can happen to anyone, from your friends to your family.

In dystopian literature, there are many universal storytelling elements and literary devices that builds onto the theme. This is apparent in Charlie Brooker’s TV show Black Mirror’s Nosedive, where your social media score determines your life. You’re rated out of 5 stars, the higher the rating you have the more successful you are. The lower your rating the less unsuccessful you are. Black Mirror uses universal storytelling elements such as social cohesion. Black Mirror also uses literary devices such as verbal irony, symbolism, and parable.

Black vs. white, poor vs. rich, and Catholic vs. atheist. Just a few of the millions of examples there are. Everybody is always fighting their neighbors and competing. It’s a non stop battle if they realize it or not. In the movie “John Q,” the boy’s parents are facing constant conflicts. They struggle with the doctors who tell them they cannot afford to keep their son alive and get into heated arguments with them and go to drastic measure to keep their son alive. They have problems with their insurance providers for screwing them over and making them feel helpless. Then later on John struggles with himself morally and it affects his judgement and gets into a survival of the fittest instinct. He knows his boy doesn’t have much time and he knows not much is being done to help, so he takes matters into his own hands. He struggles trying to keep doing the morally correct thing in the heat of the moment.

One of the first conflicts in the film causes a bigger conflict in later years and later in the plot between the same characters. A conflict is defined as "Conflict is a fact of human life. It occurs naturally in all kinds of settings. Nations still struggle, families fracture in destructive conflicts, marriages face challenges and often fail, and the workplace is plagued with stress." in the textbook "Interpersonal Conflict" by Wilmot. Meriam-Webster defines conflict in three ways. Firstly a war, fight or battle. Secondly "competitive or opposing action of incompatibles :antagonistic state or action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons)" or "mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands". Lastly "the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the

The conflict perspective highlights the notion that society consists of individuals of different social classes and status groups that are of conflicting self- interests. As

such animosity but due to where we are as a nation where social media seemingly runs

Philosopher Emerson once said “every coin has two sides; so do conflicts”. In the pages of human history, conflicts are unavoidable and while major conflicts such as war have been evil forces in the world it can also produce very positive results. That is not to say conflict is entirely positive. When conflict arises there are those individuals that show unexpected qualities; those assets that are sudden and unforseen. These assets can be seen in the movie The Sapphires through the character Dave and on a global scale through Mandela. Unfortunately there are also those individuals who in the midst of conflict express unexpected negative traits. This can be seen through the

In high school most kids try to fit in or be popular, we ditch our once closest friends for a taste of the good stuff. Others don’t care and move on with life. As humans we feel this constant need to be accepted by people we do and don't know. Now with technology we can get that instant reaction. The world depicted in “Nosedive” it is a very realistic possibility. Just from how we already use social media, feel that need to be liked and how people already act fake most of the time

We deal with conflict everyday. Whether it is a kid at school that you just can't stand, or a family member. Heck, it may even be a random stranger at the store and he took the last LEGO set that you wanted. Whoever it is with it is still conflict. And when you get conflicted, you don't handle it too well (don't lie to yourself, everybody does it). When people are angry at one another, they want to show that they’re mad. This doesn't just happen in real life though. Conflict and reactions are shown throughout our culture. It can be a book, movie, picture, or even history. No matter what, conflict is all around us, and how we deal with it is very important.

Sociology has major impacts on all aspects of our lives. Television shows have been used as an outlet to reflect the current circumstances that dictate society. Deeper sociological concepts are prevalent amongst all television shows, but where many shows fail in terms censorship shameless does not. For this reason dissecting shameless, exploiting the apparent concepts evidently shows us much of our own current society and the behaviors that dictate human behavior. Religion is a topic that is not frequently brought up in television.

Conflict defined by dictionary.com as: "A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash." Humanity

The outcome of conflicts between characters vary due to the drive each character has. Each character’s drive is shown in how passionate they are about how they want something to end up. The more you are driven to do something, the more likely that what you want will happen. However, if two people have the same drive, the conflict will resolve itself in a different way. Conflicts arise in different ways in each individual story, but most conflicts are introduced during the rising action in the literary piece.

‘Nose Dive’ does an exceptional job of grabbing people's attention to the fact that we seek approval from others before ourselves. Booker shows us that social media is corrupting and important at the same time because that is what society has moved towards. The episode gives us a platform to reflect on ourselves and how we view the world. It makes us understand it is okay to be ourselves, everyone is different. Don't let society suck you into a world you don't want to be a part of because in the end it's our actual family and friends that matter not the status you posted 40 years

After watching the San Junipero episode of “Black Mirror”, it was clear there were many obvious similarities between “Black Mirror” and “Children of the New World.” Both works take place in a future universe, and involve many impressive technological improvements. One story from Weinstein's “Children of the New World” which can easily be paralleled with the observed episode of “Black Mirror” is “Migration.” In Migration, the main character and his wife Ann’s relationship is far from perfect, yet advanced technologies seems to be responsible for a major distraction from their marriage. The two have mixed thoughts, as Ann is on board with their virtual love lives, yet the main character is more uninterested in a virtual love life. In the San

Unfortunately, even people today have feuds. If people practiced being responsible and having self-control, they would be much better off, and much distress and anxiety would be avoided.