Dystopian fiction

Imagine a world where everyone happens to be perfect, everyone happens to be the same cookie cutter image, and everyone happens to be nice. Pretty boring huh. Now let's arrive in the real world where nobody happens to be perfect, everyone happens to be different, and only a few happen to be not corrupt. The story of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain contains countless amounts of corrupt aspects in people’s lives. Huckleberry Finn unveils the story of a boy, named Huck, and his journey down the…

The society in Anthem is a dystopian society. A utopian society, is described to be as perfect a society as you can get, and a dystopian society is the exact opposite, making it the worst and most unpleasant society you could bare. Anthem can be considered dystopian in my perspective because of the oppression that the people face, the lack of voice, and the several other non favourable things they are forced to do. Because of the way this dystopian society functions, it is technologically…

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…

A perfect world doesn’t exist, but humans keep trying to create them, and humans keep striving for the perfection that they cannot reach. Although this sounds pointless, creating a utopia can help bring to light the many problems that we still need to solve in the world today. Creating a utopia can also help reveal new ideas to implant into society, like Democracy. We use many ideas from utopias to make our world a better place and make it slightly closer to a utopia than it was yesterday. The…

experts explain that the Greek meaning for Utopia means “no place”, this shows that the Greeks thought that Utopia couldn’t be real or possible. Lois’s experience with her father's aging and dementia allowed her to establish a setting of an Utopia/Dystopian society in her novel. For example, Dystopia/Utopia shows how homes and dwellings are different. In The Giver, all the dwellings are the same. However, in the real world most people’s…

Dystopia. If there were to be an Utopian society, it would not last for very long. There can never be a Utopian Society that lasts very long, it will always turn into a Dystopia. Every Utopian Society turns into a Dystopian society. One Utopian society that turned into a Dystopian society is the society of Fahrenheit 451. This society tried to make nobody smarter than anybody else so they banned books which made everybody their worst selves and felt close to nothing for feelings. This made…

dystopias are societies that usually are futuristic and an illusion of a perfect society made by several things. Corporate, religious, technological, and bureaucratic control are the big 4 types of dystopian societies. There are three things that control people the most in dystopian societies. Dystopian societies include bureaucratic control, technological control, and propaganda that all take away people’s…

utopian society, citizens can think freely also citizens embrace the world. But most utopian worlds turn into a dystopian world because in most utopian worlds become too perfect and people become to greedy and don't want to be like everybody else. One key piece of a utopia is equality and in both Pedestrian Ray Bradbury and in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. equality has created a dystopian world. In the pedestrian they tried to make it a Utopian society by controlling people and no…

Essay Prompt #3- Utopian Society An ideal utopian society would give room for intermarriages, irrespective of race, financial or ethical background. It would begin with a full and mandatory education for children, followed through by free lifelong learning offered to anyone in the civilization who is interested. Agriculture would be treated as a science, and a major part of the curriculum in the education system. Every citizen should spend some portion of their life working on a farm. An ideal…

Phones, Fear, and Frappuccinos: The popularity of dystopia The year two thousand marked the end of one generation and the birth of another. This new generation would soon be given the name Digital Natives, because they would the first to grow up using devices like smartphones and laptops, never knowing a time before internet. Naming a generation after technological advancement shows how important technology is to us. We use technology to communicate, learn, and upload photos of our frappuccinos…