The Ray Bradbury Theater

through a different lense. They may think of nuclear fallout, plagues and pestilence, and other awful things. But sometimes the distinction between utopia and dystopia can become muddled. In works such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451, the idea of an ambiguous future are ex. Both of these works have original ideas and stories. Brave New World focuses more on mass production and

for the crew, the men “held to each other’s elbows, suddenly unable to breathe, it seemed. Their faces grew pale.” (Bradbury 33). The men were filled with fear as to what they saw: Mars looked exactly like the old town on Earth they all grew up in. This portrayal of setting develops the fear of the unknown because it is the exact opposite of what Mars was believed to look like. Bradbury goes on to set this expedition in context chronologically with the previous two mission. Some of the men believed

happen in this ever growing, refined world. Most dystopian literatures install a sense of fear in people. A fear that society could be taken over by a select few, an unnatural force, or Mother Nature herself. The movie, In Time¸ and the story by Ray Bradbury, The Murderer, give chilling examples of what could, or could not, become of just Earth, but society as well. The film In Time takes place in the distant future. Time has replaced currency. Every person has a bright green clock on their arm showing

Science fiction and graphic novels both possess special niches in literature. Writers like H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, and Phillip K. Dick progressed the genre to reach a broader audience through increasing exposure in society. Today, writers like Orson Scott Card continue to popularize science fiction through both published works and online stories. The new medium presented by the increased accessibility of the internet allows for the genre to grow, allowing recognized authors and aspiring

were taken away? Many of us may feel like a part of us is missing but, in reality we’ve been taken away from interpersonal communication and interactions. Not only is technology hurting our younger children in society but, many of our adults too. In Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt” he describes how the more technology you have the more dissatisfied you become. Society has come to show us how technology is slowly dehumanizing our world. In our world today, technology has become more and more advanced

innovations followed. Fantasia, launched in 1941, was the first animated film to feature stereophonic sound. (The movie’s success was limited, however, by a combination of factors. One practical hurdle was that theaters had to install new sound systems to show it and the onset of World War II made theater owners hesitant to make the investment.)[19] In years that followed, Disney would expand beyond animated features into live action film and television and into the

Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem, traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is, in lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable, as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance, when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets, the sonnet