After my OGR my story has had to go through another rewrite but only to fix some points that didn't fit with the overall plot. Story Idea A light house keeper and his young daughter are setting up and turning on the lantern of the light house as a storm starts to roll in. As they watch the storm from inside their home the keeper spots a boat that’s in trouble and is heading for the rocks. The man tells his daughter to stay in the light house no matter what happens as he goes out to help. The young girl watches from the window as the storm becomes more wild and the waves violently hit the rocks. Years later, in the present, we see that the girl 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 awa...
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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