After getting some feedback on my story idea I chose to re-write to try and develop it further. Story Idea - Re-write A young girl and her father, a light house keeper, are out fishing at sea and all seems fine. However, when they are going back to shore a storm suddenly appears and the boat hits the rocks throwing them both out in to the sea. Years later, in the present, we see that the girl has survived the accident and has now grown up. She is seen standing in front of her father’s grave showing that he didn’t survive, it is also shown that she has become a light house keeper herself to carry on his memory and to protect others from the same fate. However, the grief of her loss is still with her as she now spends all of her days and nights locked away in her light house on her own with none to talk to. However, a young man appears at her door one day and introduces himself as having moved into the old fisherman’s cottage by the shore. He tries to befriend her, ...
Hi Rhia - I think you need to look at your theoretical framework in Chapter 2... In terms of our 'preference' for dystopian storytelling, I think you need to revisit some of the ideas we encountered last term... Lyotard's 'incredulity for metanarratives' - so that sense of 'distrust/scepticism' for those big overarching structures - one of the reasons we don't 'like' Utopias is because we 'postmodern' and because we don't like/are comfortable with 'monolithic' ideas/structures. I'd argue the 'trend' for dystopias is connected with poststructuralist theories - so Derrida and his attack on 'logic' (ideology masquerading as 'binary opposition') etc.
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