Utopian and Dystopian ideas are popular because a utopian society is an ideal world, or a fantasy image in a millennial's head, while a dystopian world is the reality. Societal norms have become all about image and fitting in, hence the ideas about equality and its growing popularity. The idea to be perfectly equal is the whole purpose of a book like “The Giver” where everyone’s life was stripped of color and everyone’s life was perfectly normal. When a society wants to have a Utopian world, there will be antagonists like Jonas, going against their ideas and becoming nonconforming, showing that societies standards will not be met if we cannot celebrate individuality. In “Harrison Bergeron” the idea was a utopian society, but when society has forced people into these ideas and ‘handicaps’ (forcing people into looking the same, looking the same, etc) there will be people fighting for their own personal beliefs in what they think is right. Harrison had fought to break out and start a rebellion, but the others in this story could not fight for what is right, because they did not know right from wrong. This illustrates how some people in other countries can be like this, where they don’t know right from wrong. Furthermore, in a series like “Divergent” where they felt as though uniqueness is a threat to society they banish the ‘Divergent’ or people who can fit into 2 or more factions. In books like this, it shows how society feels the need to put everyone into a box and eliminate uniqueness.
