Dystopias In The Maze Runner

The purpose of this connections essay is to show a greater and broader idea of a dystopian future. I have used four texts that use a dystopian setting to show us their (creators) ideas. Most of the connections made across the texts show a similar idea or themes as these creators have the same idea of what a dystopian earth will be like. All these texts have come from different decades, this reinforces the ideas that they have created.
The idea of dystopias is a key theme that is represented throughout past and present texts. This essay will explain the connections in dystopias in past and more modern texts. I will use the texts of Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card, the short story of The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, Divergent directed by Neil …show more content…
The story of Maze Runner is about a group of people who are cut off from the rest of the world and set to live in a primitive tribal like society called the “glade”. In the group of boys that are chosen to live in the glade they have no memory of an outside society. This means that they can’t bring any outside theory’s or influences as the story progresses and rebel nature arises in the clan of boys as some start to rebel against the old ruler. The glade in which the boys live is in a centre of a maze, and what they don’t know is that they are being observed, much like in the texts of Enders Game and Insurgent. The colony is controlled by a greater power, more in control of the group than the tribal leader. The Dictator outside the maze send in care packages with food, building supplies and other equipment need to use to survive. This idea shows the audience that the utopia that the boys have set up inside the maze is majorly affected by the dystopia that is actually happening outside the maze and in outside societies. Much like Enders Game and Insurgent, the boys in the maze are controlled by fear ‘of the other’ or fear of the unknown. In the maze there are these creatures called the Grievers. Much like the ‘Bugger’ in Enders game they are very influential of what happens in the story. The maze walls keep the glade safe from the Grievers at night. When the peace is broken in the Glade the dictator outside the Maze tries to teach a lesson by setting the Grievers free in the Glade. Much like Janine in Insurgent, the person in charge is scared of the unknown and wants to control the mini society by methods a dystopia setting would use e.g. scaring people into doing certain things. The director’s purpose of this is again to show that there can never be peace in the world. No matter how hard a certain group tries to create a perfect society, someone most definitely