Utopian and dystopian fiction

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…

There are many genres of writing that authors utilize, but the dystopian genre stands out the most. Dystopias takes what is wrong with the modern society and emphasizes it in the novel. The author of dystopias take the problem and places it in a possible alternate universe. It makes the problem worse than it actually is to send a warning to the people to not continue the problem and to do something about it. These books emphasizes the dark society to show the readers that the people think their…

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,…

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 perfect, and that would eventually lead to conflict between people. A utopian society could not exist in today's…

A dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or dreadful. It is typically a society that is limited to certain resources. In a dystopia, a society is usually controlled by the government and leaves no power to the people. Two examples of dystopias would be the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Both of these novels are based on dystopias, during different time periods. They have an abundance of components in common, while…

In Hitler’s eyes he was making a utopian by eliminating the Jews. Hitler wanted to create the perfect race. One that did not include Jews; he killed the Jews so there would not be more Jews. If Hitler found Jewish blood in someone’s ancestry then they also were killed. Hitler killed millions trying to create this utopian society. Utopias need to have social order in order to maintain the utopic setting, which requires a greater…

Dystopian literatures often tell stories of a civilization portrayed in an unhumanised state due to their moral beliefs and traditions held by the society. These traditions, usually ending in death or separation, are routine and seen as an event. These stories are also characterized by having protagonists who do not fit the norms of the broken society due to their independence and their ideas of freedom. During these works, authors often use irony to develop the growth of their characters and…

An anarchist utopia is a place free of structure, an “intentional community” (Bey 2003, 95) that embraces the Chaos that “never died” (Bey, 3). Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Le Guin 2003) Depicts such a utopia. Anarres hosts an anarcho-syndicalist society. There is no political system, socioeconomic classes, or possession. Everyone has the “birthright of decision” (Le Guin, 9). “Nobody goes hungry while another eats” (Le Guin, 285). The only organizational forces are the computers that…

lead dehumanized and often fearful lives” (“Dystopia”). At the end, there can only be a dystopian world. Considering the fact that nothing can be perfect and there will always be people to defy the rules and laws. In 1984, it may seem perfect with a common enemy and having everything seem so perfect. They are all illusioned with constant surveillance, restricted freedom and totalitarianism; that shows a dystopian mood. Twitter may seem perfect in every way. Taking the fact that twitter…