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    can’t understand. Utopia is so perfect that Dystopia its evil counterpart gets overlooked because of everyone's desire to have perfection. When in reality there is no such thing as a perfect society because not everything is perfect. Somewhere between the lines, there is a flaw that occurs and diminishes the perfection. Dystopia is not what you expect it to be it is the world that is completely opposite from utopia, a place where everything is perfect. Dystopia can be a very complexed place to…

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    (Bradbury 85). Third-generation fireman Guy Montag is not happy. Living in a society where there is nothing but pleasure, burning books and other literary works that have been abandoned by society induce frenetic entertainment and instant gratification. Dystopia is a term used to describe a society characterized by human misery. Every person is trapped in this dystopian society without knowing it. Seventeen year-old intellectual Clarisse McClellan challenges Montag’s morals through her innocent…

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    In The Giver, the author has portrayed the community to be more like a dystopian world than a utopia. Dystopias are the exact opposite of utopias, the perfect paradise. The Giver society is always being watched, everyone looks the same, and the citizens of the community are living in an illusion of a perfect world. A dystopian society is always under close watch by the people in power. In the community of The Giver, the main character, Jonas, gets called out for a mistake he had made as soon as…

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    Mimi Petrova Period 5 11/12/2015 Utopia - The face of a well hidden Dystopia Utopia is a society who gives the impression of a perfect live, laws, and happiness for all the members, no flaws. A Dystopia is the exact opposite. It 's a world full of misery and nothing is perfect. In most cases Dystopias are formed from a society that was once a Utopia. People go looking for a perfect life and once they find it, it 's usually too good to be true. People start disagreeing, and then some of them are…

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    Wall-E Dystopia Analysis

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    Throughout literature and film we come across many different types of dystopias. Some that we have all seen or read that you would not even notice the dystopian qualities it consists of. The few I have found are Fahrenheit 451 and The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, 1984 by George Orwell, and WALL-E made by Disney. All of these sources do infact connect in one way, they are dystopias, I link 1984 and WALL-E together, many believe that WALL-E is not a dystopian film but many things point to it…

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    A dystopia is a place in which everything is unpleasant or bad. George Orwell has written an accurate dystopia. George Orwell’s book, 1984, has many elements of a dystopia. George has his citizens being under constant monitoring, people get tortured and are subjected to gruesome punishments, and George Orwell’s Oceania of 1984 is the North Korea of 2016. In 1984, you are under constant surveillance. So you know any citizen has no privacy. When Winston was doing his daily exercise, he is…

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    Dystopia In North Korea

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    George Orwell is about a dystopian world called Oceania. The main character, Winston Smith, does not agree with the overruling government (The Party) and tries to rebel against it. Much like Oceania, North Korea shares many characteristics of the dystopia. North Korea is located in the pacific ocean between…

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    characters influence each other and this makes them change their views on their society. The characters slowly find out the truth and try to take action for their own causes. A utopia is considered to be a society where everything thing is perfect. A dystopia is a society considered to be a place where everything is unpleasant and bad for citizens, or is trying to mimic a utopia but is failing to do so. Therefore, the…

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    harmony with one another without a need for bloodshed, a utopia, whereas one society is a place where everything in the world is nothing more but a dark place, where everyone is corrupted and insane in more ways than one, a dystopia. In the modern world, utopias and dystopias…

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    humans possess causing a constant battle for the perfect place. From several failed societies had resulted in the creation of a dystopia, a state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, usually caused by totalitarian rule. In the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, he had created a mocked society off of the Russian Revolution using animals as the people. The dystopia he had fabricated was to emphasize how leadership affects the success societies. Positive leaders tend to lead a stronger…

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