hehe, we were supposed to read that book at the last minute for my 11th grade english class. we had like 1 week left until we had to drop the books and study for exams. no one in our class read the...
i just started reading it. very interesting ideas because many of them came true.
And to the whole 'came true' idea- In Junior Yr history my final project was to read three dystopia books (I picked 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange) and then write a paper talking about all...
I used the phrase Dystopia in my essay on my summer reading of 1984 Sophmore year and my English teacher told me I could not use that because it wasn't a real word and too oxymoron-ish. Of course, she was a moron because I had been using the phrase "negative utopia" until I discovered "dystopia" on the back cover of my 1984 book.
webster's says it came into usage around 1950. so unless she was 100 years old, she's got no excuse. it's a valid english word. english is all about inventing words and its a very evolutionary language anyway.
Maybe she was trying to pull a 1984 and get rid of words? She wasn't too old but she resembled a mix between Moby Dick and a Pilgrim. She was also very into talking about sex and no matter what the work we were discussing was about, it really was about the sex.