similar settings that has exploded into the literary market: the archetypal dystopian society. The Hunger Games‚ The Maze Runner‚ Uglies‚ Divergent‚ Matched‚ to name just a few series‚ are a mere trifle of the many young adult dystopian novels that flooded bookstores in just the past two decades. Dystopia itself is not by any means an unfamiliar face in the world of literature. Some of the earliest inklings of dystopian societies can be found in H.G. Wells’s book The Time Machine (1895). The future
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the guise of being utopian. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems‚ and various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity’s spiritual evolution. (Definitions from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki) Dystopia and Utopia in film and fiction: 1. Utopian societies are desirable‚ whereas dystopian societies are undesirable
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A dystopian society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. In the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society under corporate control. Which means that the government controls many of the citizens’ decisions. In this novel the protagonist‚ Jonas gets chosen to become the record of memory. So he will get all the history of the world. He starts to realize that his community is not what it said to be. He didn’t like that fact that he has been lied to for his whole 12 years of living‚
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Elements of Dystopian Fiction A dystopia is a futuristic and imagined world where the illusion of a perfect society is created by a government or some other controlling force. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia‚ which is an ideally perfect world and also tries to present itself as a utopia to its citizens. A dystopian novel is a book written about a dystopia that often criticizes some aspect of modern society and usually contains at least one character who realizes what is really going
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“How does Collins use the genre of dystopian fiction to make a comment on contemporary society?” Suzanne Collins uses dystopian fiction to warn us of the many things that are wrong in the present world. The Hunger Games is based on a depressing world which we would all hate to live in. Collins brings to our attention some of the problems we have in today’s world such as our obsession with looking perfect‚ how we waste our time‚ and how selfish we are. In our society we waste our time on video
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Freedom of speech can get you killed . Kids are also put in a raffle and if chasing they have to be in the hunger games it’s annual it is when kids go and fight and kill for food and to have better shelter . Third ‚ the Divergent society represents a dystopian society the government has a test teenagers take and it picks out the job for you . That’ll be your job for the rest of your life. it’s a three step test and if you pass but can go into multiple jobs you are considered dangerous . Only because the
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government but not always. A dystopian society can also be a planned structured society in which the conditions of life are deliberately made miserable. Some examples of these can be characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ violence‚ disease‚ scarcity‚ and/or pollution for the benefit of a select minority or some unnatural societal goal. I am going to discuss how the short story “The Lottery‚" by Shirley Jackson and the film Demolition Man directed by Marco Brambilla exhibits dystopian. In the short story
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1. What elements of dystopian literature are evident in Fahrenheit 451? A huge element of dystopian literature in Fahrenheit 451 is propaganda used to control the citizens of society. In the book‚ Montag escaped and found the college professors that are hiding out from the rest of society. After a long conversation he notices a portable TV and decides to watch TV to see the news. A few minutes into watching TV the announcers say “There’s Montag! The search is done”. It was a man walking on the street
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America has many different types of dystopian traits that can often be found through research and by talking to other people. Dystopia continues to evolve everyday through the actions of society and the government. In our daily lives‚ some people may not realize that events of dystopia are taking place‚ but by doing research and truly focusing on events that happen in our society‚ it is possible to sort out the many different types of dystopia. When one truly realizes how much dystopia there is
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Dystopian stories use differing people in order to parade the concept of free will‚ and how it is hidden in the midst of government control. The characters are often faced with hardships in order to get to the point that they are enveloped in their own free will. George Orwell’s well known dystopian fiction novel‚ 1984‚ and Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Philip Dick are often placed side by side in comparison. Both fictional written adventures that broadcast the journey
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