Building block 3.2

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

My target audience likes Hypotheticals and exploring what could have been. Alternative history is a genre that attracts an older audience as well so I should avoid slang and proclivities (Like “lit” and that sort of nonsense) that are associated with my generation to appeal my audience. My purpose is to explore a range of possibilities of how subliminal messaging could be used to both “improve” human existence, or crush/control it. Infographics work very well with this topic because dystopias are often prevalent in alternative histories and they like to use a lot of propaganda and subliminal messaging.

Alternative histories are realistic and barrow from the real world but are usually used to champion some cause or ideal. Fahrenheit 451 paints a world where extreme censorship is funded by the government so that censorship is put in a bad light, while the handmaids tale depicts a world where women are treated as property so that women rights can be better appreciated in the real world. There are many different alternative histories a lot of them center around WW2 and the nazis. l believe the reason for this is that the nazis were taught to be the ultimate evil and people don’t want them to resurface.