Category: Dystopia

The word utopia comes from Greek and means good-place/no-place. A utopia is an imagined society with perfect qualities. There are no problems in a utopia and all desires are met. The opposite of utopia is dystopia, but dystopias can also be failed utopias. Dystopia basically means not-good-place. It is very scary and undesirable. The prime…

Utopia and dystopia are genres of hypothetical fiction that dive deep into social and political structures. Utopian literature visualizes a perfect society where everything is butterflies and rainbows. Sounds too good to be true? It is. In literature, utopias hardly ever last long but, instead, they turn into complete dystopias. And come on, dystopias are…

Utopia is an illusion. Dystopia is the reality A utopia is a fictional society or state imitating a perfect simulation. The film, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir demonstrates how Truman’s definition of perfection contrasts from Christofs perspective. The movie teaches viewers that one man’s Utopia is another mans Dystopia, through the defamiliarizing of…

Utopianism has slowly made its way into a literary genre by authors comparable to Thomas More. Mores book, Utopia was written to show his disdain about the political corruption that happened in Europe during his life. Comparing the word Utopia to both a good place and no place. Although Thomas More was the father of…

Dystopia is a sub-genre that is central to British literary history. It pairs itself with the British cynicism and creates a richly bleak outlook on the future world that British cinema has identified and created some of its most influential films from. It is an unspoken subtext that Britains have this pre-existing psychology, but as…

A futuristic imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. DYSTOPIA The oxford dictionary defines dystopia as an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post- apocalypti. A…

The Evolution of American Literature American literature has been transforming since the early settlers came in to colonize the contemporary New England. Back then, deeply believing American authors were writing works which were about the consequences of witchcraft and Salem rituals. At that point there was a problem with practicing dark magic by witches and…

Introduction to the Dystopian World of ‘Harrison Bergeron’ One would expect that having their son taken away and being wanted by the government would leave an impact on them, but not in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s world of Harrison Bergeron. In Harrison Bergeron, society functions by full equality, meaning in every aspect, everyone is equal and…

Utopia is a paradise, a heaven. Where everyone lives fairly, feels happy, free, give love for each other. Respecting others, listen to someone elses words, moral, and good. On the other hand, dystopia is a gloomy, world with no dreams or hopes. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, has a different society from…

The story Jon by George Saunders revolves around the main character’s experience in a dystopian world as it is written in first person limited. The main character’s name is Randy, however he insists that people call him Jon, because that was the name that his mother gave him before she supposedly died. Jon lives in…