Utopian and dystopian fiction

A dystopian society is an imaginary society that dehumanizes men and women as well as having an authority with cruel societal discipline. Through the destruction of history, government 's are able to dominate large populations of people and influence them to act a certain way. The public is controlled through the creation of distress within the lives of its people. The defilement of domination is kept up through forced reality on the populace. The acknowledgment of pernicious aims prompts…

and throughout all of government, there has been corruption. The similarity between all of these misled regimes is that they all had immense power, too much for one rule. The blackening of powered authorities is represented in Nancy Farmer’s dystopian fiction book, The House of the Scorpion. In The House of the Scorpion, Matt is a clone of the drug lord El Patron. He grows up in the drug state of Opium, and eventually learns he is a clone. Many people begin to resent Matt, and eventually he…

such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne popularized science fiction in the late 19th century. Building off of this relatively new genre, Aldous Huxley published what is widely acknowledged as his greatest work, Brave New World, in 1932. Huxley drew heavily upon the pioneers of science fiction; however, his predictions of the future differed from his predecessors. While earlier authors, specifically Wells, predicted technology would lead to utopian societies, “[i]n at least one letter dating from the…

What type of metamorphosis has the Eugenics movement endure in the 21st century? The Eugenics movement started in the 1920’s where it gained a large popularity among the elites of society during that era. Out of this elites, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin, was the person that coined the term “Eugenics.” Eugenics comes from the Greek words meaning “good birth.” This movement involves applying the principles of heredity for the enhancement of the human race by various forms of…

Divergent is a young adult Dystopian novel written by Veronica Roth, a college student. After its release by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2011, it was an immediate success, seeing as a mere college student had quite the critic for society in pages containing the story of Beatrice Prior, a teenage post-Chicago resident in an “Utopian” society, struggling with abnormality upon not conforming with the restrictions placed on metaphysical individuality. Evidently, those who could see that were…

Conformity is often portrayed as a big and negative obstacle to individuality, thinking for yourself, and living your life authentically. In the dystopian fiction literature, by Lois Lowry, The Giver, the author strongly believed that individuality is the key to a prosperous society, but many sources say otherwise. The protagonist, Jonas lives in a seemingly utopian society where conformity equates to happiness. At the Ceremony of Twelve, where all twelve-year-old children receive their lifelong…

of a bottle. Borel’s death, with nine years still on his arm, was proof in the movie that, despite having endless years at one’s disposal, unnatural death is not ruled out. The lack of true immortality within the façade of immortality creates the dystopian commentary that even wealth and privilege can’t let you live forever. The comparison between the two makes a blatant statement about immortality, in the context of the text’s society, being only for the wealthy and not to be shared with the…

David Tasanasanta Mr. Howell Advanced World Literature 9 March 2017 Importance of Choice, Memory, and Feelings in The Giver Would you live in a preset world? What would it be like to be placed in a nameless dystopian choiceless world, where all weather is controlled, and all memories belong to one person? The truths behind why memory exists and how feelings and choice play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers…

Title of Book: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year of Publication: 1993 The Giver is a 1993 American young dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. This novel is set in a society where at first everything appears to be utopia- the perfect place but as the story proceeds further it is revealed to be dystopian. This novel has a character who is a 12 year old boy named Jonas who is taken up for the highest position in his community which is of Receiver of Memory, the person who…

Most commonly defined as a literary subgenre of science fiction in which the author uses strong imagery to portray a version of societies of the future or an alternate universe, utopian and dystopian novels, like Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 or Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, have quickly become arguably one of the best-selling types of literature. Both of these novels begin with our protagonists following the status quo and going on without taking issue with the structure and goings-on of…