Name: Crash Course: Literature 4
Uploaded: 2017
Description: Crash Course Literature with John Green is back! This year, we've got a bunch of varying degrees of dystopia to talk about with you.

Crash Course Literature with John Green is back! This year, we've got a bunch of varying degrees of dystopia to talk about with you.

In which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash Course Literature! We're starting with George Orwell's classic look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big Brother and making us think about surveillance.

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1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 401

In which John Green continues discussing George Orwell's 1984. Today we're talking about what the novel 1984 has to say about what some have called today's surveillance society. We'll also look at the idea that language can be used as a means to control people's thoughts.

George Orwell's 1984, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 402

In which John Green teaches you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel, The Handmaid's Tale. John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer.

The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 403

This week, John Green continues to teach you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. In this installment, we're looking at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means to tell a story in that way.

The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 404

John Green teaches you about Voltaire's hugely important Enlightenment novel, Candide. Candide tells a pretty wild story, but for the most part, it's about the best of all possible worlds. Which, spoiler alert, doesn't seem to be the best of all possible worlds.

Candide: Crash Course Literature 405

This week, John is teaching you about the near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. The parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up in a post-climate change, semi-lawless America.

The Parable of the Sower: Crash Course Literature 406

Today on Crash Course Literature, John Green teaches you about The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of a woman who is a prisoner in her own home, in the name of caring for her mental health. The narrator stares all day at the yellow wallpaper.

The Yellow Wallpaper: Crash Course Literature 407

John Green teaches you about Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, To the Lighthouse. There's not a whole lot of plot unless you count the tension about the beef stew. You're reading it because it's a pioneering literary work that explores the point of view, narrative flow, and the nature of art.

To the Lighthouse: Crash Course Literature 408

The Sound! The Fury! Today, we're talking about Shakespeare's Scottish play, Macbeth. So, was Macbeth really predestined to do all the murdering and bad kinging and other terrible stuff? That's the big question in Macbeth, and it's one of the ideas we're going to talk about today, among many.

Free Will, Witches, Murder, and Macbeth, part 1: Crash Course Literature 409

This week on Crash Course Literature, John Green is continuing to talk about Shakespeare's dark, bloody, Scottish play, Macbeth. This time around, we're looking at the play's characters operate, how the play deals with gender, and Macbeth as an early anti-hero.

Gender, Guilt, and Fate - Macbeth, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 410

In which a series about literature, which is wanting of an episode on Jane Austen, gets the first of two episodes. It's Pride and Prejudice, everybody! John Green talks about Pride and Prejudice as a product of Regency England and gives you a short biographical look at author Jane Austen.

Pride and Prejudice, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 411

This is it! The final episode of CC Literature season 4 is a deeper look at Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Today we'll explore the novel's take on materialism, and we'll talk about whether the novel has a liberal or conservative message.