Students then view additional film clips and identify which characteristics of a dystopian society the clip is intended to portray. Next, they identify the protagonist in clips from The Matrix and then discuss how the clips extend and confirm their understanding of a dystopia. They first explore the definition and characteristics of utopian and dystopian societies, and then compare and contrast the two using a Venn diagram online tool. In this lesson plan, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. Brave New World shares a vision of scientific advancements and combines them into a dystopian society, challenged by the story’s protagonist. Set mainly in a futuristic World State whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932), Huxley presented his vision of dystopia. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. He wrote close to fifty books-both novels and non-fiction works-as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. Aldous Huxley was born on this day in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England.

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