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    Dystopian Government

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    novels that display a type of dystopian government that reigns over a society. It must be noted that these novels rule in very different ways.  A Brave New World uses a dystopia of excess‚ while 1984 uses a dystopia of restriction. After a quick examination of  the definition of each dystopia‚ it is obvious which one is better. A dystopia of excess simply means‚ controlling people by distracting people. The way this works is throwing so much stuff in people’s face that they don’t recognize the bondage

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    The Giver Which Is Better

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    A Utopia is better than a Dystopia You will always have food and water‚ and a job with a family‚ and you will never get sick or injured and die because they would be able to heal you and fix your injuries and illness‚ also you will never be sad or depressed because you will get along with everyone. This is a utopia. Where everything is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. First you will always have food and water‚ a job‚ and family. In a utopia everyone would be well nurtured never starving

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    dfdfadfdsf Dystopia as a literary genre " " Utopia afraid that they come true "- wrote Berdyaev . Dystopia is closely linked with the utopia - " peace plan of salvation will arbitrarily man" ( Frank C. ) in accordance with the ideal . Historical process in dystopia divided into two segments - the ideal of equality before and after . Between them - a catastrophe ‚ revolution or other break continuity. Hence‚ a special type of chronotope in dystopia : localization of events in time and space

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    Fahrenheit 451

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    Fahrenheit 451 as a Dystopia A dystopia looks at an idea of social balance to be pessimistic. They are solely fictional‚ representing grim‚ depressive societies. Dystopias are typically supposed to scare the reader‚ yet there is a sense of comfort because of the fact that it is purely fictional. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ this novel’s setting is a complex dystopia where not a soul is truly happy‚ family isn’t certain and society doesn’t allow someone to be true to themselves. In this

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    towards the society and it establishes a society that has almost achieved perfection. Unlike utopian politics‚ dystopian governments are oppressive‚ and the citizens of the dystopian society do not have positive opinion about them. Both utopias and dystopias are set in the future and feature same elements but in different connotations‚ for example‚ more advanced technology and science. In utopian stories‚ it is believed that more advanced technology and science is used to enhance the human living conditions

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    Dystopia in Aldous Huxley ’s Brave New Worl It ’s hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or acceptance of individuality. Yet‚ as we strive towards the growth of technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing the gap between the freedom of emotions‚ self understanding‚ and of speech and the devastation of a dystopia. A utopia‚ or perfect world‚ gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley

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    Dystopian Tradition

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    Dystopian Tradition Could you ever imagine living in a world that you thought was normal but the way other people saw it was completely different. Authors have tried to warn us about our future through literature. This is the intense genre of dystopias. They show what we could become‚ who we already are‚ or who we were. It comments on what we hope we don’t become‚ it plays with our minds. Shows us our doom. The stories that people write draw us in like fish out of water. We see and encounter different

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    to strive for utopia within their world. Their world doesn’t need to be a dystopia but in striving they make their current situation even worse. But it’s not possible to reach utopia‚ so in trying to reach that impossible thing you reach dystopia. According to www.questia.com‚ “Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in ’a dark‚ nightmare world.’ The term dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty‚ squalor or oppression and

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    Truman Show

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    contradiction‚ dystopia. In both 1984 and The Truman Show‚ there are dystopia. Both the novel and the film have a “controller”‚ an all-powerful force who controls every aspect of the dystopia. In 1984‚ this dystopia is The Party‚ the force who will not even let its citizen’s have freedom of thought. In The Truman Show‚ the force is Christof‚ a man who makes an outwardly perfect world where one man is separated from the outside world completely. No hope lies in a world with any freedom. The dystopia presented

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    In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas lives in an imperfect world. His community is a dystopia. According to the text‚ utopias and dystopias is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’ community is a dystopia because of the lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. Jonas’ community has a lack of knowledge. The Receiver of Memory only knows the past. Families can only have 2 books‚ while The Giver and the Receiver of Memory have a whole library

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