How To Create A Dystopian Society

Utopian texts are created to instigate introspective thought into the society in which the audience lives in. Thomas More wrote Utopia to satirize and to criticise the status quo of his era in 1555. . Written in a time of political, cultural and religious upheaval, it was a revolutionary text that challenged the accepted state of affairs. Through his work, entitled ‘Utopia’ More criticised political corruption, religious hypocrisy, distribution of wealth and the harsh penal code of the time. He tried to explore an ideal world with both Christianity and reason but ulteriorly wanted to expose the irrational and terrible nature of aspects of the time they lived in. ‘Utopia’ was such an influential text it became an accepted word in the English language. It has lived on as its own genre, as a vehicle to encourage responders to think about how society is run.

Aldous Huxley’s (1931) Brave New World explores a utopian or dystopian society depending on how it is viewed. In the wake of a collapsed world, a society has arisen where people are manufactured, sometimes in identical groups of up to 96. The “World State” is the governing body and controls the world based on the idea that for the better good, strong emotions, desires, and human relationships have been removed from society. The …show more content…
This is evident in both novels. In Brave New World, the society was only able to come into being after a horrendous war and massive instability. It took many years and careful planning to coordinate the move. Make no mistake that this ‘paradise’ was a dramatic and sharp change to the world. This is another appropriation of Utopia. Even the island was not a natural occurrence. It was told that it took thousands of workers and meticulous effort to diverge an entire channel to cut it off from the continent. This is a testimony to the amount of abuse of nature that is required to maintain an ideological