Utopian and dystopian fiction

Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Jr. taking place in a modern age where everyone is equal mentally and physically and “Anthem” by Ayn Rand took place in a future where society had fallen and everyone is part of a matched set. Both stories taking place in a dystopian society where individualism is a crime and Conformity is law. In a society controlled by handicaps and conformities, the two stories are completely different. In Harrison Bergeron, those who are above average intelligence or…

Dystopia Dystopian societies are represented by different pictures in the minds of different people. One might imagine the human rights disaster that is North Korea, for example. A few fictional examples include Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery, and The Ones Who Walked From Omelas. These short stories all feature a common theme: society is seen as a utopia to the characters, but the author has added a characteristic (or characteristics) that contaminates it. The characteristics can be very minor,…

There is a lot of dystopian and utopian literature that explore whether or not a society can actually be perfect in everybody's eyes and standards. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a society where the government does not allow their citizens to gain additional knowledge from other resources such as books. In this book, characters influence each other and this makes them change their views on their society. The characters slowly find out the truth and try to take action for their own…

Prior to my reading of George Orwell’s 1984, which was actually one of the first high school required readings that I actually enjoyed. I assumed the idea of a dystopian or utopian society was a somewhat a new idea. I had no clue that this genre dated as far back as the 1800s with hundreds of utopian literature being published before the 1900s. The film Metropolis directed by Frtiz Lang in 1927 was of special interest to me after my discovery. So much goes into physically producing…

memories in order for him to experience the world as it existed in the past: a place of pain, joy, sorrow, and beauty. As Jonas’s perception of the world begins to change, he starts thinking about his society in a new light. My favorite book, a dystopian novel, falls in a genre that is over-crowded with bestsellers such as The Hunger Games, Divergent,…

Imagine you were in a perfect world where everything is perfect. But here's the thing you're in the real world where we can only imagine perfect worlds. The song "Rainbow Connection" was about the rainbow connection and if we’ll find it, and the opinion-editorial “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” was about what perfection is and how we’ll never reach it as a group. Both "Rainbow Connection" and “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” deal with the TOPIC that a perfect society is impossible to create, but they…

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…

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…

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…

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…