Works referenced:

• Metallica, Master of Puppets (1986).
• John Hughes, The Breakfast Club (1985).
• Neo-Expressionism (mid 1970s-mid 1980s)
• Immanuel Kant, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793).
• Tool, Lateralus (2001).
• P.O.D., When Angels and Serpents Dance (2008).
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925).
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).
• Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
• Metallica, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Ride the Lightning (1984).
• Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989).
• Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (2001).
• Alex Michelides, The Silent Patient (2019).
• Steven Caple Jr., Rise of the Beasts (2023).
• “Dystopia,” The Oxford Dictionary.
• Kawika Miles, What Is the Purpose of Dystopian Fiction?
• Terry Gilliam, Brazil (1985).
• Beck, O’Delay (1996).
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
• Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism (2019).
• Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992).
• Jose Saramago, Blindness (1995).