Dystopia In Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

A dystopia is an imaginary wretched place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives, it is the opposite of a Utopia. "A dystopia is any society considered to be undesirable, for any of a number of reasons. The term was coined as a converse to a Utopia, and is most usually used to refer to a fictional (often near-future) society where current social trends are taken to nightmarish extremes. Often the difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia is in the author's point of view. Dystopias are frequently written as warning, or as satires, showing current trends extrapolated to a nightmarish conclusion. A dystopia is all too closely connected to current day society." (Dystopia.) One Dystopian community was the Nazi concentration camps. They were horrific communities for the people that were put in there. The first Nazi camps were used for work and were called "work camps." The camps included millions of Jews,
Soviet prisoners, homosexuals, gypsies and other groups of people that were seen as perfect in the eyes of Hitler. Millions of concentration camp prisoners were killed in through mistreatment, disease, starvation and overwork. It was not until 1941 until the Germans created death camps or extermination camps. They were made for one reason, and that reason was to murder as many Jews as they could. They were murdered mostly by poison gas, in huge "gas chambers." They were also killed in mass shootings, starvation, and overwork. The concentration camps did not end until towards the end of WWII when the Americans invaded Germany and discovered what the Nazis have been doing. Eisenhower realized that it was essential for the soldiers to at least understand what they were fighting against. He wanted the world to know of the conditions at Ohrdruf. He wrote a message to Washington that said: "We are constantly finding German camps in which they have placed political prisoners where unspeakable conditions exist. From my own personal observation, I can state unequivocally that all written statements up to now do not paint the full horrors." (Cambell) Lord of the Flies is an extremely good example of a dystopia.
Schoolboys are trapped on a deserted island. In the beginning they set up order and try to follow the rules they have made. After a while some of the boys do not like how things are ran, they turn on half of the other school boys and set up their own little tribe. After a while the majority of the boy's are in the tribe that dress and act like savages. In the end the boys get so insane that they turn on each other and try to kill Ralph who is one of boys that never joined the tribe. In the beginning the island was almost a Utopia. The boys on the island could not agree with one another and decided to fight one another. "The book chronicles the children's gradual transition from uniformed school boys to primal savages. Within this story lies a strong commentary on human nature, and the potential for monstrosity that lies buried within the individual and society," (Lord of the Flies) It then became a Dystopia because the boys were killing one another and life for Ralph was extremely
hard. The book Frankenstein was also a dystopia. Frankenstein tried to create a man from different body parts and pieces. He wanted to create a man that he could teach things to and that he could treat as a human and who would treat other people as humans. Instead he created a monster that was not meant for the world. T he monster ends up killing Frankenstein's closest friends and family. "Koontz effectively merges science fiction and horror conventions with Judeo-Christian traditions." (Cheeks) This is an example of how a Utopia turned into Dystopia. Frankenstein tried to create a perfect human being but instead he created the exact opposite. In Brave New World, they use technology to create and control society. They try to make everyone have a certain task, a certain life that they have to live for society to work. It sounds good but it does not work as well as it sounds. It seems like the government tries to think that people don't have emotions and that they can create whoever they want however they want. It is hard for someone to be happy if they are created and controlled in a way that they do not want to be. The people that are controlled by the government are giving a drug called soma. This drug will keep the people happy and it makes them want to continue their work that the government has made for them. In my Dystopia the government would rule everything. Every person would be controlled by the government and they had to do what ever the governement told them to do. The government would almost be ran like how it is in Brave New World. The government would not make human beings but they would have certain jobs for the different kinds of people. The people would not have the option of doing what they want to do, but instead they would have to do what the government tells them to do. The strong would have jobs in the military and other high positions. The smart would have jobs in reaserching new technology and advancing the community. The normal class would have jobs in factories, construction, and all of the other jobs needed to run the community. The weak would have jobs that would consist of maintence, cleaning and other things that the higher classes would not need to do. The government would would have the strong and smart. They would enforce the rules and make sure that everyone does their job. They would also use scare tactics for the people not to try to disobey or to try to fight the government. The people that do disobey or try to fight the government would be punished severely. They would take them away to prisons where there would be no trial and would make them suffer in a cell for long periods of time. Since the people would be controlled by the government then they would no be happy and would live miserable lives. Some people would be able to have families but the majority of the people will not be able to. "Does dystopian fantasy serve a purpose? Probably. One could say it forces us to think about how are lives are at this instance and to determine that even though the grass is always greener - sometimes it is fine right where you are." (McCann) Wes, Clark. "The Rugby Readers Review". Wester Suburbs RFC. 11/01/05 .