Dystopian fiction

to feel. This rebellion against an oppressive society helped pique my interest in dystopian novels. With this book, I made connections with my world and the world of the people in the story. This association brought to light universal qualities that humans share, such as adaptability. From that point on, I focused on novels that fixated on human struggles. This craving eventually led me to one…

Dystopian societies can often be characterized by the betterment of the livelihoods of a group at the expense of that of the individual. These societies usually arise due to some combination of natural and man-made disasters that brings the human population close to its end. While the governments that rise to power in such scenarios create their individual ruling systems in order to reestablish man’s placement on the Earth’s social ladder, many times minority groups are subjugated in order to do…

you don’t have any freedom, and you can’t even read a book. In this society there is depression, suicide, and murder. These elements describe a very unusual society, a dystopian society in the book, Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 to censor people and show how it works. There’s no growth in this dystopian society because they censor the people and that causes depression, suicide, and murder. Depression in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is caused by many things and one of…

Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley both reveal dystopian societies controlled by totalitarianism. Orwell and Huxley both incorporate authoritarian elites, individuality being suppressed, and support the idea that people can get brainwashed; although both show different views on how a dystopian society would be organized and the details and how the story is told varies greatly, they succeed to show characteristics on how a dystopian society would look from the inside and out.…

Dystopias walk a fine line between evoking a sensation of fear and inducing a sense of futility. Descriptions of grim futures, mask dystopias basic optimism. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. takes place in the year 2081, everything is finally equal, no one is smarter, better looking, or stronger than anybody else. What good is equality when your creativity is taken away taken by weights(handicaps) and a transmitter sending horrible sounds every 20 seconds masks hiding your beauty and…

Dystopian stories have a way of taking the present and predicting the future. Whether it be cases of censorship such as Fahrenheit 451, issues with government secrecy in The City of Ember, or mass surveillance and government control as seen in 1984, I believe all these issues are still present today. To say 1984 is no longer relevant is to completely disregard the truth as it is clear that at home and abroad the world is struggling to find the perfect balance of what a government should be and…

Dystopian, and utopian worlds are often regarded and portrayed as worlds that display different aspects of societal potential. In the two novels, George Orwell 1984 and Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, people are controlled by a totalitarian government in which they are not free to express individual will and thought. In Orwell’s 1984, the world is assumed to be dystopian and every action an individual takes is observed by Big Brother. In Huxley’s Brave New World, a utopian setting takes place…

The words utopia and dystopia have been in use since 1516. The first utopia appeared as satire in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, which depicts an island with perfect social, legal, and political systems. The title was a play on words; combining the Greek “ou” and “topos”, which translates to “nowhere”. By the 1610s, the word was regularly used to describe a perfect place. The word dystopia evolved from utopia. “Dys” meaning “not” transforms a perfect place into the opposite. When first used,…

What's Perfect? Think about some of your favorite movies. Are any of these set in the future or even in an alternate dimension? Modern movies and literature are usually dystopian because they give viewers a way to see that our world could be so much worse. In contrast, utopian novels may often give readers a false hope that one day our society could look the same. A utopian society could not exist in our world because nothing can be perfect, not every person has the same idea of the word…

Bergeron. Harrison was restricted on everything, because of this when he finally broke free he was viewed almost as a super human: a godlike person. Then the government killed him because they cannot have someone going against them. Which is another dystopian attribute of the 21st century. Conspiracies exist for a reason. They explain how things happen to the people who go against the government. Another historic example of this would be the John F. Kennedy assassination. Many people believe…