we all have a soft spot or a weakness in literature.
mine is humour followed by humour. nothing beats a good laugh out loud when reading.
what is yours?
what is your literature weakness or soft spot?
we all have a soft spot or a weakness in literature.
mine is humour followed by humour. nothing beats a good laugh out loud when reading.
what is yours?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Me too - humour. Also I love a good love story.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
Satire.
My inability to stand on my hands and pee toward the sky to take a bath.
great word. does satire relate to sarcasm?Originally Posted by Shevek
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Tragedy.
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
Satire refers to the use of sarcasm. It will show the targeted subject's short comings strange behavior. Satire also uses humor and exaggeration. A satire is also a genre name for books or movies that use satire.
Forgewright
I am a man with one distinguishing manner. I view life as a nonstop roll by circus. Whatever my senses signal to my brain, it is received as humor. Robert S. Hatfield
Dystopia
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Stylistic prowess. Just finished Lolita. It's all downhill from here
Mine is utopian lit. Although, I like dystopian as well because it does just as good a job at describing what the world should be like!
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought....
I have always found the thought of a utopian existence to be incredibly boring. I like dystopia becasue I enjoy being distrubed.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
What about those cases when it is difficult to tell whether the setting is utopian or dystopian? Isn't the interesting thing about a utopia the fact that it is so prone to becoming a dystopia?
why do you enjoy being disturbed Dark Muse?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
so are you saying that they interlude and therefore the two extremes are similar?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Particularly in a utopia there is the looming possibility that it might become a dystopia - that the ideals the utopia is based on might be abandoned. The hippie movement attempted to achieve utopian ideals in practice, but in some cases created more internal restrictions and controls on adherents (especially women). This is something a few people within the movement recognized. Science fiction is very good at addressing this problem, but I guess the most popular example of this would be Animal Farm where a dystopia is already emerging from the promise of utopia.
In other cases the utopia/dystopia binary is less clear. In Brave New World, it is ambiguous whether the seemingly utopian world is actually dystopian.
I don't know of any intellectuals or movements (fictional or otherwise) that envisioned utopia for its own sake, without the undertone that humanity (or at least some segment of it) is doomed unless a utopian course is pursued.
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