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    Dystopian Literature Literary Analysis Dystopian literature has a lot of themes‚ including government control and citizen equality. Government control helps the people to appear to be equal in almost every way‚ but that isn’t always a good thing. The people of these societies are severely oppressed because of how the government is in control. Dystopian literature shows how the government is in control of the people‚ while the citizens appear to be equal. This paper will include examples from "The

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    The novel Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ portrays a dystopian society that completely limits the citizen’s lifestyle. Like many other dystopian societies‚ it is under the guise of being utopian. The residents are born into a permanent caste system‚ all the citizens are at the absolute mercy of 10 World Controllers‚ and they are conditioned and brainwashed into emotionless cyborgs. The readers are introduced to a strict caste system early on in the novel which outlines the conditioning for each

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    had passed away due to cancer. Over the years Eggers has become a very successful author with having written many novels‚ film scripts and short stories. In 2013‚ Dave Eggers wrote a novel called The Circle‚ which is a type of literature known as dystopian literature‚ which means to have a negative view of the future of society. Works like this are most commonly

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    one cannot exist without the other. In this instance‚ the dystopian society has rejected self-expression and creativity as an acceptable form of pleasure. The result is that citizens have turned to gene splicing‚ public executions‚ and child pornography as a means for entertainment (Atwood …). Throughout this essay‚ the novel will be broken down into examples of how the absence of self-expression and art in a society can lead to a dystopian culture. To begin with‚ the main character‚ Jimmy‚ is often

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    individuality Book burning symbolises destruction of individuality because they are all the same. It is the same as saying if everyone was blind. FAHRENHEIT 451 ASSIGNMENT a) What is dystopian about this world? The main dystopian event that occurred in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is book burning which is carried out by firemen. This the opposite of what happens in the real world. In the real world firemen stop fires but in Fahrenheit they are the main culprits

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    Utopia Vs Dystopia In 1984

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    Although perfection is a goal that everyone has‚ it does not exist. As perfect as a human being can get‚ no matter what a there will be flaws. Therefore a utopia like the Amish will always either turn into a dystopia or already be showing the dystopian characteristics. In Oceania‚

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    without major problems. As utopian as this idea seems‚ it more times than not depicts that of a dystopian society. Peace can only be achieved by suppressing the oppressed‚ class can only be disavowed through false ideals‚ and major problems can only be removed by creating new ones. Both George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World express these themes. Both novels deal with a totalitarian dystopian society that denies freedoms to their people. In Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the society is

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    Rand depicted in her novel‚ Anthem. This novel demonstrates what life would be like if everyone lost their sense of individuality and had to obey the laws that were set by the government. Struggles regarding this lost privilege are depicted in this dystopian society to present what a loss of individuality would look like if we were to introduce it in our own society. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ the

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    Are you tired of all the dystopian books that have seemed to fill up shelves around the world? Many people are. However the book‚ Legend‚ by Marie Lu‚ falls right under this new trend and for the most part was very enjoyable as it has an interesting setting. This book takes place in the west of a very dystopian United States of America. In this future the west is ruled by an organization called the Republic. The Republic is a totalitarian group that controls nearly every aspect of everybody’s lives

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    Oryx and Crake written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood‚ is the first of three dystopian novels part of the Maddaddam trilogy. Oryx and Crake was based off a futuristic society which was run off of the science of good genetics. Jimmy the protagonist‚ lived in a family of genetic scientists. One day Jimmy‚ met a boy named Glenn‚ better known as Crake (his code name). Together they connected with their obsession with a child porn star. After having attended separate post-secondary schools‚ Jimmy

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