Imagine a world, in which everywhere “the view is perpetually bleak, and each decaying, overcrowded city we rolled through looked just like the last.” (Ready Player One, 165) However, “[Halliday] was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.”(Ready Player One, 1). What would you choose? Escape from the ugly reality, abandon the reality, or abandon in order to escape the reality. Evidently, in Ready Player One, Oasis is a virtual world based on the reality that everyone desires in a dystopian world. I believe that Oasis is a virtual world, in which people ignore the facts of reality in order to escape from poverty and depression.
In Ready Player One, the role of Oasis caused major decline in our society’s economical utopic nature. Several parts of the book illustrates many dystopian context in the year of 2044; however, Ernest Cline focuses on one specific dystopic nature- poverty. In the year of 2044, Ernest describes real world, in which unemployment rate is high, environment’s damage isn’t repairable, and there is a scarcity of …show more content…
In today’s world, many people are depressed and isolated- sometimes bullied too. Whereas in Oasis, Ernest Cline made it so easy that “if [you] are feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all [you] had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away”(14). Everyone, especially in a dystopian world, wants a tension-free and relaxed life, and it was as simple as a click away to get rid of it. Furthermore, in school of Oasis, “you can mute them [bullies]” (30). And just with a click, you can make your life simpler. A life, in which no one can touch you, or harass you, you can be
In Ready Player One, the role of Oasis caused major decline in our society’s economical utopic nature. Several parts of the book illustrates many dystopian context in the year of 2044; however, Ernest Cline focuses on one specific dystopic nature- poverty. In the year of 2044, Ernest describes real world, in which unemployment rate is high, environment’s damage isn’t repairable, and there is a scarcity of …show more content…
In today’s world, many people are depressed and isolated- sometimes bullied too. Whereas in Oasis, Ernest Cline made it so easy that “if [you] are feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all [you] had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away”(14). Everyone, especially in a dystopian world, wants a tension-free and relaxed life, and it was as simple as a click away to get rid of it. Furthermore, in school of Oasis, “you can mute them [bullies]” (30). And just with a click, you can make your life simpler. A life, in which no one can touch you, or harass you, you can be