“Brave New World” Project
Brave New World Project—Build Your Own Dystopia!
Overview: As an extension of the novel Brave New World, you will be creating a "utopian" society with a partner or small group. The society presented in our story is a fictional account of a futuristic totalitarian community that has arisen many years after the devastation of the "9 years War" that has almost wiped out the Earth and all humanity. YOUR society does not have to start this way. This is your opportunity to be creative!
Assignment: It is 2540 A.D. and you have been selected to apply be one of the new World Controllers. In order to secure the job, you must design a society that will meet the basic needs of its members while maintaining order. You must determine what to do with dissidents; how information will be disseminated; how you will keep their citizens in their proper places; what occupation your citizens will have; how citizens' basic needs for food, shelter, clean air and water, medical care, clothing, etc. will be met; and whether or not (and how) you will control the size of the population. You must persuade the committee who selected you that your utopia will work so that your ideas will be implemented and you will be selected for the job.
Proposal Format: Students should divide into groups of four. Your group will present (casually) to the class. The information below should be displayed on a poster board (this will be provided in class). Use the first day in class to begin thinking of the information you want to display/creating ideas. We will use another class period to put all the information on our posters.
Assignment Value: 100 Point Quiz Grade
Create a Utopian Society
I. Give it a name
a. Choose a creative and appropriate name to represent the society. Explain why the name was chosen. Also explain how your society began.
II. Society Motto
a. Create a motto that the inhabitants of the society will follow. Explain how the motto is significant to the inhabitants of the society.
III. List of Rules
a. Create a list of 5 rules (like the hypnopaedic phrases in the book) that the inhabitants of the society will follow. They must be rules to live by.
IV. Governing Body/Education/Economy
a. Create a governing body that will control the society. How will the society make its decisions? How will it be structured? (You should be able to explain this in one detailed paragraph – consider how you would explain the controlling government of Brave New World).
V. The Society’s “Religion”/Rituals/Traditions
a. In what does the society believe? Why do they believe what they do?
b. It cannot be like any ONE of our religions now, but it can be a combination of some. There must be some creative aspect (like Fordism)
VI. Class Distinction
a. How are people in the society differentiated? Why are they separated in the manner that they are?
VII. Conditioning and Conformity
a. What makes the inhabitants follow the rules? What makes them want to be part of the society?
*** You can make this fun and light-hearted, serious and satirical, or some combination of both. Enjoy it! Have fun being creative!
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