Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 1

More’s work is the earliest of its kind, and since then all stories that depict any idealized outcome have been described as utopian.

More’s work is the earliest of its kind, and since then all stories that depict any idealized outcome have been described as utopian.

Conversely, dystopian texts depict the worst possible outcomes of societal strife, often involving the aftermath of social change that went wrong and led to oppression or chaos.

In the 18th century, utopian novels began to proliferate, and the societies depicted in them grew more extreme.

By 1755, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, in his novel Code de la Nature (Nature's Code), advocates for the abolition of property, trade, politics, marriage, privilege, and law. Everything that stands in the way of individual liberty is eradicated.

In any real society or form of government, there are beneficent people and malevolent people. Some people respect order, obey the law, are kind and peaceful. Others break laws, serve themselves, lie, and manipulate the system to their advantage.

In any real society or form of government, there are beneficent people and malevolent people. Some people respect order, obey the law, are kind and peaceful. Others break laws, serve themselves, lie, and manipulate the system to their advantage.

All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

“Boy!” said Hazel, “that was a doozy, wasn’t it?”

It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment.

“Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government..."

He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses.

Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.

Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set.

They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun.