Utopian

society, and then multiply the issue times 11 to show how in the worst case scenario would affect people. This genre has defining characteristics that set it apart from other categories of literature, one of which being the societies seemingly utopian community. It's not until you look under the surface of things to see the issues with this world, and the people that do are alienated. People are told to conform to what the world wants them to be. In divergent, people are told how they're…

Since the beginning of time, humans have always enjoyed rooting for the individual to succeed. Lets face it, we’ve all cheered on Rocky to knock out Apollo Creed at least once, we all applauded Malala Yousafzai for standing up against the Taliban in 2012, and I bet the Scots even cheered on Sir William Wallace for going against the English over 800 years ago. All in all, it’s as plain as the nose on one’s face that we just love people who have the confidence to swim against the current, or in…

Lucian clearly wants to evoke the stereotypical utopian society in his narrator’s account of the moon and its society. One source, from which Lucian takes the idea of a utopia, is Iambulus and his work, Islands of the Sun (Winston, David. 219). In fact Iambulus is one of the few authors whom Lucian mentions by name at the beginning of the True Histories, saying ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ Ἰαμβοῦλος περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ θαλάττῃ πολλὰ παράδοξα, γνώριμον μὲν ἅπασι τὸ ψεῦδος πλασάμενος, οὐκ ἀτερπῆ δὲ ὅμως…

Tramel Raggs Runaway: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dystopian Fantasy There were many possible directions to take with this project and in light of the recent ongoing battles with mental health and depression my subject has endured, I have decided to dedicate this research to one of the introspective and controversial artists of our time, Kanye West. West is a critically acclaimed, Grammy winning hip-hop musician known for his breakthrough developments in sound, ranging from his…

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…

Unwind Unwind written by Neal Shusterman and published in 2007, has 335 pages and is a Biopunk, Utopian and dystopian fiction. Unwind is the first book in the four book series including Unwholly, Unsouled, and Undivided also a mini book that goes along with the series Unstrung. Connor is an independent, hasty sixteen year old. His tendency to act without intuition gives him a rough appeal additionally gets him into a considerable amount of trouble. His parents have decided to have him unwound.…

Dystopian novels are exactly what they sound. They illustrate a futuristic world that seems perfect in the eyes of others, but in reality, the world is the complete inverse of what we as humans consider normally perfect. Some of the characteristics of a typical dystopian novel that are prominently illustrated in the novel Brave New World include the usage of propaganda which serves the purpose of controlling and brainwashing the citizens of the society. The propaganda that’s used to control the…

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…

Utopia: an envisaged place or state of things in which all facets are superlative. But, the question is: Is a perfect world attainable? The futuristic World State is describable as the quintessential world, however it’s only proven to be a dystopia. Although, the year 632 A.F. shows immense advancements in science and technology, the World State uses these advancements in creating a civilization which programs their population with specific traits, and placed in their own specific social caste…

Erika Gottlieb, an academic scholar, warns against totalitarianism and dictatorship in her definition of dystopia. “Dystopian fiction looks at totalitarianism and dictatorship as its prototype, a society that puts its whole population continuously on trial, a society that finds its essence in concentration camp, this is, in disenfranchising and enslaving entire classes of its own citizens a society that, by glorifying and justifying violence by law, preys upon itself”(Gottlieb). Gottlieb…