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  2. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Themes often explore historically common or cross-culturally recognizable ideas, such as ethical questions, and are usually implied rather than stated explicitly. [5] An example of this would be whether one should live a seemingly better life, at the price of giving up parts of one's humanity, which is a theme in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

  3. Category:Science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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    S. Schrödinger's cat in popular culture; Outline of science fiction; Science in science fiction; Sense of wonder; Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction

  4. List of science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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    Human fears: List of science fiction horror films; Language. Alien languages (e.g. Klingon, Huttese) The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis (e.g. Babel 17, The Languages of Pao) Universal translators (e.g. Babel fish) Military/conflicts. Interstellar war; Weapons in science fiction; Parallel worlds or multiverse; Philosophies and philosophical ideas; Sex ...

  5. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The contrasting three, where only the third has positive value, for example, The Three Little Pigs, two of whose houses are blown down by the Big Bad Wolf. The final or dialectical form of three, where, as with Goldilocks and her bowls of porridge, the first is wrong in one way, the second in an opposite way, and the third is "just right". [3]

  6. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.

  7. List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Big Floppa; Floppa – a collection of images either portraying caracals or a specific caracal by the name of Goshe, Shlepa or more commonly Big Floppa. The collection of images do not portray to a specific theme per se, but always hold Floppa as a centerpoint or personification of something. [329] [330] Goatse.cx – A shock image of a ...

  8. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Post-apocalyptic scenarios were a common theme in the music of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, most notably the song "Wooden Ships" and the album Blows Against the Empire. [58] The music video for the song "Mankind Man"(1995) by the Barstool Prophets featured a dystopian view of the future reminisent of Lord of the Flies and Mad Max ...

  9. Theme - Wikipedia

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    Theme (Byzantine district), an administrative district in the Byzantine Empire governed by a Strategos; Theme (computing), a custom graphical appearance for certain software. Theme (linguistics), topic; Theme (narrative), the unifying subject or idea of a work; Theme Building, a landmark building in the Los Angeles International Airport