Dystopian Literature _ Lecture 1-2 _ RECAP

Warm-up Questions

Who was the first person who coined the term "Utopia"?

(You can choose more than ONE)

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Thomas More

Which of the following are the etymological meanings of the term "utopia" in Greek?

• a good place

• an island that has perfect society

• a place that does not exist

• an island that does not exist

Which of the following statements is not true about Thomas More?

(You can choose more than ONE)

• In Thomas More's Utopia, there were two characters in total.

• Thomas More is also the one who wrote The Republic.

• Thomas More wrote Utopia in Latin.

• Thomas More was a student of Plato.

• Thomas More believed his idea of Utopia is better than Plato's Ideal State.

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During the early modern period, (a)   are clearly influenced by the (b)   . Travel is in fact at the basis of utopian literature from the start: the discovery of new worlds led to the publication of reports on travel and on the exploration of ​ (c)   places; ​ (d)   voyages led to ​ (e)   voyages—and then to utopian thinking and utopian​.

• Thomas More and Francis Bacon
• Renaissance travel literature
• distant
• discovery
• imaginary
• island
• Greek philosophical ideas of ideal state
• impossible
• Thomas More
• Thomas More and Plato

"In Plato's ​ (a)   , he pointed out that ​ (b)   means people can contribute to society by doing work that suits them the best. The fulfillment of one's social role is the key to ​ (c)   ("eudaimonia" in Greek). To Plato, the ​ (d)   is the best candidate to be the King of one state, and in his allegory, he is even the one who is able to go out of the ​ (e)   , see the sun, and learn about the Form."

• The Republic
• justice
• happiness
• philosopher
• cave
• Poetics
• beaity
• the Good
• room
• tragedy

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Match the following authors with their works.

• Gulliver's Travels (1726)

• Francis Bacon

• Brave New World (1932)

• Richard Jefferies

• After London (1885)

• Jonathan Swift

• New Atlantis (1626)

• Alddous Huxley

• Republic (c. 375 BCE)

• Plato

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What kind of utopia does Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels embody?

• idealistic utopia

• materialistic utopia

• dystopia

• anti-utopia

• satirical utopia

Refer to the reading task in Lecture 1...

Which of the following ideas are true about the utopian vision in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626)?

(You can choose more than ONE)

• Travel literature influenced Bacon's imagination of Utopia.

• Science will make society prosperous.

• Human progress is unachievable.

• Technology gives rise to political and social unrest.

• Bacon's imagination of Utopia is non-hierarchical.

Refer to the reading task in Lecture 1...

Which of the following is NOT the literary influences brought by French utopian novels in the 18th and 19th centuries?

(You can choose more than ONE)

• Utopia is no longer at a distance location, but in the future.

• A lot of French Utopian novels were translated into English.

• The society in the future will be a just and fair city.

• The French novels provides English novelists with the early expressions of feminists.

• The society in the future will show material abundance.

Refer to the reading task in Lecture 1...

Which of the following statements are true about Marxist utopists influenced by Marx and Engels? (You can choose more than ONE)

• Economy and morality are both important parts of societal progress.

• A perfect human being is capable of founding a society of justice.

• Utopian authors were well aware of the historicity (=the quality of being part of history).

• New human being will be born with the changes in society, economy and politics.