Dystopia

The 1950s were a very difficult time for many people. Two American authors, Ray Bradbury and John Updike, published literary works during these tough times. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel about a dystopian society where the government prohibits the public the access to books. The society’s “fireman” are employed to go around and burn books and the homes of people who possess them. Montag, the main character of the novel, happens to be a fireman. The novel takes the reader along…

“Every utopia -let’s just stick with the literary ones- faces the same problem: what do you do with the people who don’t fit in?”- Margaret Atwood. Ray Bradbury was an author in 1950, and wrote a popular book called Fahrenheit 451 which displays a utopia gone bad. This dystopian society has a very severe ban on all books, and looks down on intelligence. In the book, Firemen start fires instead of putting them out, and to them, that’s the way it’s always been. History has been switched around to…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two timeless novels that stylized a now-popular form of fiction - the dystopian genre. This genre typically takes place in a futuristic setting, with many works having themes of oppressive governments, advancement of technology, and sometimes even human evolution. Both novels, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World, share a common overall theme of a unique, creative, and often terrifying dystopian society, though they differ in…

As a tyrannical government is allowed to rule freely over the illiterate masses, technology became so advance in a way wherein work that should be done by people are being replaced by robots, virtual centers are being safe havens for the people who choose to refuse to live but rather exist in something that isn’t real and tangible. Raissa Claire U. Rivera’s “Virtual Center” is a unique but horrifying example of a society built in Class Division which showcased the poor versus the rich, and the…

purpose in the community even at a young age.If you don't have any purpose in the society there is no need for you.But in reality their “ideal” society turns out to be flawed. And soon enough things start to change, the community turns into more of a dystopia rather than a utopia. Jonas and the Giver two of the main characters in the story begin to realize that the elders might be hiding something,and that's why they are so controlling. In chapter one Jonas explains how one day the announcer…

In today’s society, capitalism satisfies our desire to constantly consume goods and services. This structure of economy allows anyone to make her own living and pursue her American Dream while empowering great minds to find answers to the world’s biggest problems. However, it also paves the way for companies to rapidly extract natural resources from the earth, and in turn put many of those harvested resources to waste. Consider the mass amounts of energy wasted every day from leaving the lights…

Would you rather be the only person outside in the world while everyone else is “locked” in, or be a living house that can function by yourself with no one living with you? No matter which one you choose their fates at the end both resemble dystopias. In both “There Will Come Soft Rains “ and “The Pedestrian”, the two stories go hand in hand by being alone by themselves, isolated from the “new world, and unfortunate ending fate’s, with how they're living in a dystopian world In the “Pedestrian”…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel published in 1993 that explores the idea that through the attempt to create a utopia, it is the impossibility of this mission that often times leads to a dystopia. The story takes place in a “community”, where emotions are controlled through discipline and drugs, and “sameness” takes the place of individuality. While on the surface this community looks appealing, the reader quickly learns all that has to be sacrificed in order to make this “utopia” a…

power in a horrifying way. Orthodoxy so pure it has become thoughtlessness, perpetual war enough to keep people in fear, and unwavering submission to Big Brother all drive Orwell’s society, and many societies today hold glaring similarities to this dystopia.…

Dystopia and utopia. Two sides of the same coin showing a science fiction setting of two extreme points. Each person has their own vision of utopia. In the nineteenth century, mankind believed in the perfectibility of humankind and in the real possibility of an ultimate utopia, a perfect society”. A time when everybody could live in perfect peace. But, the events of the twentieth century have defiled that idea. These two extremes of speculative fiction have always provided a stark contrast…