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Katelyne Woodruff
Dr. Donohue
Final Paper
Style, Utopianism, WB
Orphan Black : The Best of All Three Worlds
In this essay
,
I will show the relationship between style
,
utopianism
,
and world
building
.
Without style
,
there would be no world building and without world building
,
there
would be no utopianism
.
The show Orphan Black exemplifies a clear outline of all three of
these topics
.
Therefore
,
I will elaborate on how they all interrelate within the show and other
authors we have mentioned in class.
Style, within literature is often conceived as one’s uniqueness and capabilities to
write, meaning it is what the writer creates as their own to make it unique. Or, when you’re
writing you put ‘yourself’ into your writings, making it your own personal product, but I
believe style is how the reader perceives what they are reading. Any one person can write in
their own format/style, but not every one person who reads it is going to interpret it as the
same. Every reader themselves has their own individuality of how they imagine what they
are reading, and that is what makes up style. Giving a generic text to read, and your readers
soaring with it. One would assume it’s all about the writer, but if not for the readers, why are
they even writing in the first place?
Utopianism, on the other hand, can’t really stray away from its meaning. A Utopia is
an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect quality
citizens. The term Utopia is derived from Greek Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book, Utopia.
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This describes the fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South
America. Utopia comes from “ ou-topos” meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'. But this was a pun
- the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means a good place. So, at the very heart of the
word is a vital question: can a perfect world ever be realized? Unfortunately, paradise in the
present has always been elusive. Not for lack of trying. Utopian experiments have been
attempted at every step in the march of civilization. Why haven't any of them succeeded? For
one thing, the bar is constantly being raised.
Therefore, the opposite, coincidentally enough being a dystopia. This is a community
or society that is in some important way, undesirable or frightening. Dystopias are often
characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or
something else associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.
World building is the process of constructing an imaginary world, sometimes
associated with a whole fictional universe. This often involves the creating of maps, a
backstory, and people of the world. Constructing worlds can enrich the backstory and create
a picture in the works.