The post-apocalyptic world is an important and common setting. How does it influence the story?

Post-Apocalyptic Genre

a sub-genre of speculative fiction concerned with the end of civilization due to a catastrophic event

such as nuclear war -pandemic, impact event -cybernetic revolt, supernatural phenomena - resource depletion some other general disaster

set in a world or civilization after such a disaster focusing on the travails or psychology of survivorsoften takes place in a non-technological future world, or a world

where only scattered elements of technology remain. However, this may not always be true.

genre gained in popularity after World War II, when the possibility of global annihilation by nuclear weapons entered the public consciousness.

Characteristics of Post-Apocalyptic Genre

Fallout (video game)The Hunger Games Trilogy (book series)The Book of Eli (film)Jericho (t.v. series)The Walking Dead (t.v. series)

Some Post-Apocalyptic Works

Viktor Vasnetsov (1887)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Contemporary Zombie Apocalypse

The Hunger Games

Fallout

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Why are there so many apocalyptic texts, movies, songs, art?

Do you have a favorite apocalyptic work of literature or movie or song? What is it?

Do you believe in the Apocalypse? Why or Why Not?

Discussion Questions

What are the conflicts you’ve noticed so far?How does this setting enhance these

conflicts?How does the setting enhance the mood?How does the conflict enhance the mood?How has the conflict affected our characters

so far?What are specific quotes that…support the

mood?…support the conflict/s?…support the setting?…support how characters are being affected.

Discussion Questions