![]() ![]() Especially after World War II, Orwell’s prediction felt much more likely. One claims a totalitarian regime will watch our every move, the other assumes we’ll be numbed to oblivion with consumerism and drugs. Two you might be familiar with from high school days are George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Video games like Bioshock, movies like The Matrix, and lots of classic books fall into the dystopian genre. This is called dystopia – a miserable society. Some of the world’s most popular science-fiction explores what would happen if not only we tried to build such a place, but also if it went wrong. For example, if you want to help someone deal with rejection you might say: “Life’s not always a bowl of cherries.” A popular German equivalent we have is: “Life’s not a pony farm.” The idea is that on a pony farm, everything is dandy all the time.Ī perfect world, in which everyone is always happy, is called utopia. ![]() One thing that’s always fascinated me in English class is how our idioms translate and vice versa. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account: ![]()
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