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    I believe that Dystopian literature is popular right now among teens because. It shows the rebellious side of characters. It also shows how unique the main characters are‚ whether they are free or not it always shows them finding a way out of wherever they happen to be in the story‚ and they always survive because of their ability to adapt and use their mind to figure things out and find solutions to problems and challenges that they face‚ and overcome adversities. In the book maze runner thomas

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    Feed is a dystopian society novel by the author M.T. Anderson. In this society‚ most of the population have a device inside of their brains‚ feed‚ which ultimately is the continuous and unlimited internet access. Not only does the feed give the individual unlimited access to the internet‚ it is also connected to their thoughts‚ memories and‚ emotions. Corporations in this novel are portrayed to taken over most if not all of society‚ they have power over the feed and education. As a consequence of

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    What is causing teens to have an interest in reading about a protagonist and their heroic journey? Today’s young adults often have an interest in reading dystopian literature. But why? Here’s a few reasons of why they might enjoy this specific genre of literature. For one‚ teens can often relate to dystopian fiction. In the passage “Breaking Down the ‘System’” it states “The system is asking a lot from teens and not giving them much respect in return so it’s no wonder that stories about that system

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    Dystopian Society Different societies have risen and fallen in the continual search for the “perfect” society. The definition of this utopia is in constant flux due to changing times and cultural values. Many works of literature have been written describing a utopian society and the steps needed to achieve it. However‚ there are those with a more cynical or more realistic view of society that comment on current and future trends. These individuals look at the problems in society and show

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    of social ideas lead to the conception of a new literary sub-genre‚ soft science fiction. Inspired by works including “The Iron Heel” by Jack London1‚ it used the deficiencies and corruptions in both capitalist and communist culture to predict a dystopian future. These counter or anti-utopian societies often focus on the dehumanisation of the proletariat‚ and how the ruling class use fear and war to control those below them. Every novel is as dissimilar as the authors who wrote them‚ with both the

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four: INGSOC Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about the life of a man named Winston Smith. Winston Smith is living under the totalitarian government‚ the Inner Party‚ in a land called Oceania. This totalitarian government has ideology called INGSOC‚ which it uses to obtain complete power. Within this ideology there are the Four Sacred Principles. They are: the mutability of the past‚ doublethink‚ newspeak‚ and the denial of objective reality. All four of these methods are

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    In the book Brave New World‚ we are introduced to a dystopian society where humans no longer create life and are now created in a factory. The World States controls and stops any effort made by citizens that try to acquire any sort of scientific or practical truth. The government also attempts to destroy any sort of personal connection such as love and friendship. This book differs greatly from that from Frankenstein mainly because Brave New World deals more with eugenics and an oppressive society

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    Dystopian Societies The government in Huxley’s Brave New World and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale‚ both use different methods of obtaining control over people‚ but are both similar in the fact that These novels prove that there is no freedom in dystrophic societies when the government controls everything including individuality in order to keep their societies the way they want it to be.In both societies the individuals have very little and are controlled strictly by the government. In Handmaid’s Tale

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    Dystopian literature often presents the individual’s quest for meaning in hostile and oppressive worlds.’ To what extent do the writers present their protagonists as successful in this quest in ‘1984’ by George Orwell‚ ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ by Oscar Wilde and ‘Woman at Point Zero’ by Nawal El Saadawi? The assertion that all three writers present their protagonist as having a quest for meaning in a dystopian world cannot be disputed. However‚ the extent to which these writers present

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    kind of imaginative writing in the form of ‘dystopian fiction’ that blended modernism and social realism in one form. Dystopian fiction records the contemporary social trends and projects them into imaginative reality‚ while stretching them to extremes to forewarn that taking anything beyond its limits can have drastic consequences. Dystopian fiction attempts social criticism as it has opened new ways of seeing and feeling about things. Although dystopian fiction lacks basic essentials of novel writing

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