1984: A Perfect Society

A perfect society is not at all what it seems. The word to describe this so called “perfect society” is a utopia. A utopia is, “More imagined and wrote about an ideal country where citizens lived in harmony and prosperity’ (Sreenivasan xi). But there is also the complete opposite of a utopia and that is called a dystopia. A dystopia is, “A society characterized by human misery” (Dystopia Dictionary.com). No society can be truly perfect and so many people try to come to this so called utopia. Which causes conflict and those people become too much to handle. So the creators of this society sets rules and boundaries to not only set a balance to the community but also to not have people suspect what that society really is. The book 1984 is about a dystopia called Oceania and what it is like to live in that dystopia. The protagonist Winston, is one of the only citizens of Oceania that knows that Oceania is not all what it seems. Oceania has a lot of surveillance, everybody in the community are kept ignorant and don’t mind the surveillance at all. But there are also societies in the real world that are dystopias as well, like the KKK. The society of the KKK is a community that rebels against desegregation. They all
There are Dystopias in not only books but in the real world also. There is proof showing there is no such thing as a perfect society. There probably never will be. But that won’t stop people from trying to create one. In the world there will always be a dystopia out there. Utopias are only an illusion that people try to show but there will never be a true utopia. Human behavior stops that from happening. All the rules that need to be set and the amount of people that come into these so called utopias will be wanting something that is impossible to have. There is way more dystopias then just the KKK. Some of those dystopias may be shocking and nobody would suspect some of these places to be a