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Write About Games!: BioShock in the classrooms

So as I was finishing up the semester for school I was tasked with writing a paper for my English class in which I proposed a course I’d like to take and a reading list to go with it. I decided to create a course centered around the concept of utopian societies and their inevitable failure. The texts I chose to include were 2K Boston’s BioShock, Ayn Rand’s Anthem, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium, T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, and Andy and Larry Wachowski’s The Matrix. Surprisingly, a list half full of movies and a video game actually impressed my teacher quite a bit. I think it really speaks to BioShock’s depth and substance that it can be respected in an academic capacity, and I’d like to share with you the passage that focuses on that 2007 classic.

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