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    Dystopian Visions

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    Dystopian Visions An imaginative society consisting of oppressive squalor in which all are heavily restricted by the absolute superiority of the ruling party. A society where repression and restrictions seem boundless‚ while the individual liberty of the citizen seems boundlessly obstructed. A society where mental deprivation and deception is the goal of the guardian; a society where misery and poverty are thrust upon the unsuspectingly loyal citizens; a society where the well- being of the people

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    Fields‚ Donnie English 101 Extended Definition 19 September 2011 The term scorched earth literally means “to burn the surface”. It is a military policy or operating strategy that involves the destruction of resources that can be effectively utilized by enemy combatants. Retreating or advancing armies have practiced this policy in ancient and modern times. This blanket policy can include the destruction of transportation systems‚ industrial infrastructure‚ communications and shelter either

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    Through their setting‚ characterisation and plot development‚ Vaughn’s Amaryllis and Mastroianni’s Jordon’s Waterhammer conform to the stereotypical layout associated with Dystopian Literature. Introduction: Imagine living in a world where you are disliked or frowned upon‚ not because you are a criminal‚ but because you are merely different. Imagine a life where everything you think or do is controlled by the government and going against the group norms is punished by torture‚ isolation or death

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    The Hunger Games‚ Divergent‚ The Maze Runner are the typical dystopian book. And here we have Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro‚ another book that belongs in the category. But this dystopian book isn’t the typical book with just one protagonist way in over his or her head trying to “save” the world. Instead‚ there are multiple vulnerable protagonists‚ even though it’s being narrated by only one of them throughout the entire book‚ and comes off as more of a false romantic story. The book follows the

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    A dystopia is an imagined world in which everything is unpleasant‚ which is typically an environmentally degraded society. Divergent‚ is a movie based off of the novel series Divergent which was published in 2012. The setting of the movie is based in Chicago at an unknown future date‚ and the main characters are Tris and Four. This movie is an example of a dystopia because the events are not real‚ and it is in an environmentally degraded society‚ where everyone believes that there was a war that

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    Possible effects dystopian fiction could have on the future are people getting more interested in the history and the reason behind dystopian society’s. A dystopian society is a society where nothing is perfect. It’s a place where no one wants to be or live. Dystopian fiction started by authors starting to question that societies should be trying to perfect by writing about a bad society‚ a dystopian society. People could start to get more involved in wanting to write about the horrible societies

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    Some nextopian retrofutures are based on specific past cultures‚ and some are amalgams of idealized histories. Piercy’s retrofuture in Mattapoisett intentionally adheres to the cultural practices of the Wamponaug [sic] Nation (Piercy 103). The politics of the Wampanoag include ecological and feminist ideals that would seem alien to Connie even though she is closer in time (pre-1990’s) to the original Wampanoag culture that Luciente’s culture is based on (97). A secondary character‚ Bee‚ explains

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    In 19th century‚ America was going through a rapid change. In this era‚ people took numerous efforts to improve American society. One of the ways they used to make this happen is by Utopian movement. Utopian movement was an effort taken to create a perfect society with people’s idea and opinions. Utopian experiments took place because people found American society in that era was imperfect with inequalities and wanted to make it perfect for everybody to live. Eventually‚ these communities went on

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    concrete utopia ESSAY

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    Concrete Utopia: Utopia is the name for an ideal place society. The idea of Utopia is to improve the society for the community which refers to social equality. The name is taken from the title of a book by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society‚ and fictional societies portrayed. Concrete portrayals of ideal societies‚ after the manner of Utopia‚ contribute little

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    Utopia or dystopia?

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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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