Dystopian fiction

Fahrenheit 451 and Hunger Games as Dystopian Fiction A dystopia is a term used to describe a universe where there is a great measure of societal control, and an intention of a perfect society are made through tight control. These controls can be corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopian societies have characteristics in which keep them apart from others. For example, a dystopian society may use propaganda to control the citizens of the society.…

and counterrevolution, or emphasizing the negative aspects of our society. Dystopian literature on the young adult scale, however, typically involves a well-designed setting, an individual or group with absolute power, a strong protagonist who has been shaped by his or her surroundings, and dismal conclusions that leaves readers uneasy but…

Angela Carter: Bridging the Gap between Fiction and Reality Angela Carter 's book The Passion of New Eve is a work of fiction that was published in 1977. However, the book could easily be seen as realism through a dystopian lense. When people think of dystopia nowadays, they think of teamwork heroines such as Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games" or Tris Prior from Divergent. This idea of women standing up against their society is not as new as some people like to believe. Like Hunger Games…

Dystopian literature specifically looks at how political, social, and economic structures can go bad and oppress the people that they are meant to help. A dystopia is a general public portrayed by an attention on that which is in opposition to the creator's ethos, for example, mass neediness, open doubt and doubt, a police state or oppression. Most creators of tragic fiction investigate no less than one motivation behind why things are that path, frequently as a relationship for comparable…

Whilst society’s ongoing change occurs, often it is the use of dystopian texts that explore our own future best. Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre under speculative fiction that undermines the fears of society in its given context. In modern dystopias, this is often through the use of a totalitarian government or in an environment of absolute control. However, in a teeming civilization, it may only take an individual to break this conformity. Thus, effective dystopias best express the faults in a…

oppression, war and conflict. In the book “Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults,” edited by Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz, “Dystopian fiction describes non-existent societies intended to be real as “ considerably worse” than the reader’s own.” For example, we can find Dystopia in movies, and books were society is different in the technological aspects, social norms, and lifestyle; nevertheless,dystopian society live in worst conditions of what we lived…

Although a dystopian novel and literary piece of fiction, Orwell manages to capture the paradox of utopia and the quest for perfection. 1984 embodies a civilization uniform in belief and ethics, with a common admiration for Big Brother. As seen throughout the novel, Big Brother gains…

Interest in dystopian fiction has surged in recent years because of the popularity and astonishing success of dystopian movies such as The Hunger Games (2012), The Divergent (2014) and The Maze Runner (2014). All three movies focus on the struggle of a community which is forced to conform because of a powerful governing system. Individuality as such does not exist due to the restrictions imposed on society. Readers and spectators alike are intrigued by tales of oppressive societies which deal…

Out of every single dystopian novel, each is said to be similar in many ways. Each of these stories follows a set of characteristics that mold them into the dystopian genre; however, as readers begin to analyze separate works, they ask questions of how strictly these guidelines must be followed. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is one of these. When compared to the outline of dystopian fiction, it won’t hit every mark, but it will hit almost all of them. Even though To Kill a Mockingbird does…

society. The Dystopian genre in fiction introduces a devastating turn on the future of the world in which no sane person would enjoy living in. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road delivers a compelling sense of misery in it’s shattered, dark atmosphere. The book focuses on describing it’s horrific world, developing it’s few characters, and adding warnings, which are all elements of Dystopian novels. A must in Dystopian novels is taking place in a terrible world. The main point of a Dystopian story is to…