Modern literature has presented various examples of futuristic universes that are maintained through the perfect or imperfect conditions of law, government, and customs; societies where people live an unexcelled life or where people live a degrading life due to the horrific conditions they endure. These utopian or dystopian societies are throughout literature to raise questions about the future as people continue to experience domination by speech, individuality, and corrupted minds. Dystopian societies have the characteristics of repressive and controlled states. Utopian societies, on the other hand, have the characteristics of a faultless world in which people live within a "paradise" of coexistence, happiness, and stability. Both of these
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No war, no poverty, no famine, and no disease, which are strictly conveyed in a positive outlook of the future, mask utopias. Many humans have foreshadowed this pleasing outlook, including a recent foreshadowing by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1932. According to Frank Lloyd Wright, the future will present society with " Great architecture, service stations, no longer eyesores, expanded to all include the service and comfort…each citizen will have all forms of production, distribution and self improvement" (The Next City). This depiction further suggests that utopias lead to success among people and society 's functions because it leads to self-improvement and ultimately self-actualization among its citizens. Rather than reflect on negative connotations, utopias look for the brighter and better picture that people within society can meet through the inevitable quest for positivity in life. Dystopian societies, conversely, have the perception of amassing fear/ creating a sense of doom. They invoke a strong worrisome in the citizens because citizens have to contend menacing events of corruption and dissatisfaction, which is given to a society in the novel the Hunger Games. In the novel, President Snow rules the country of Panem, so Katniss, the protagonist, retorts " Taking kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch- this is the Capitol 's way of reminding us we are totally at their mercy (Hunger games p 18)", which further advocates that dystopias have devastating features for the society to come: forcing stern and unjustified rules on citizens. Obviously, a utopian and dystopian vary in their perceptions of society; utopias create succession for citizens and dystopias create a corrupt, demolishing place for
No war, no poverty, no famine, and no disease, which are strictly conveyed in a positive outlook of the future, mask utopias. Many humans have foreshadowed this pleasing outlook, including a recent foreshadowing by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1932. According to Frank Lloyd Wright, the future will present society with " Great architecture, service stations, no longer eyesores, expanded to all include the service and comfort…each citizen will have all forms of production, distribution and self improvement" (The Next City). This depiction further suggests that utopias lead to success among people and society 's functions because it leads to self-improvement and ultimately self-actualization among its citizens. Rather than reflect on negative connotations, utopias look for the brighter and better picture that people within society can meet through the inevitable quest for positivity in life. Dystopian societies, conversely, have the perception of amassing fear/ creating a sense of doom. They invoke a strong worrisome in the citizens because citizens have to contend menacing events of corruption and dissatisfaction, which is given to a society in the novel the Hunger Games. In the novel, President Snow rules the country of Panem, so Katniss, the protagonist, retorts " Taking kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch- this is the Capitol 's way of reminding us we are totally at their mercy (Hunger games p 18)", which further advocates that dystopias have devastating features for the society to come: forcing stern and unjustified rules on citizens. Obviously, a utopian and dystopian vary in their perceptions of society; utopias create succession for citizens and dystopias create a corrupt, demolishing place for