Category: Dystopia

Throughout history, humankind has strived for perfection in every aspect of humanity, yet it has never been attained. There is a very fine line between perfection and disaster and the result is ultimately based upon the decisions made by people in authority. In dystopian societies where individuality is considered abnormal or wrong, the line between…

In 1949, an evolution in literature was produced by George Orwell with his world-renowned novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The book described a world besieged by war, civil conflict and revolution, where three totalitarian super-states rule the world under an iron fist, corrupted by the ideology of the Ingsoc and by mysterious world leaders who demand a…

Dystopia which means community or society is popularly assumed to be an inverted mirror and negative adaptation of utopia. Dystopia is considered as a genre in the absolute sites for generic combination. Which means tyrannical governments, dehumanization, environmental disorder are come along with cataclysmic (lots of eradication) that dwindling in society. It was a literal…

Published in 1953, Ray Bradburys novel Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a dystopian world. In which is his prediction of the 21st century, where the government controls society through technology and the burning of books. In this alternate reality technology tends to have control of the population. Similarly, The Matrix is a film directed by the…

In this American novel written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian future is said to perhaps be his best writing, because the novel attracted and still catches the attention of people today. At the time of the novels release , Ray Bradbury had taken witness to the inclination of Americans towards…

Manifestation of Modern Feminism in Handmaids Tale It was in the early nineteen hundreds with the addition of womens suffrage when the first waves of modern feminism began. This was one of the first steps in altering womens previously thought power, identity, and individualism. These factors continued to be at the crux of later feminist…

Writers of dystopian literature focus mainly on the present and future. Both Orwell and Atwood turn their attention to the ways in which the present plays a pivotal role in helping to shape the future. Although both novelists focus on both tenses, dystopian literature often makes readers question if these events reflect the present or…

Like many dystopias ONeills dystopia Only Ever Yours focusses on the theme of entrapment. The theme of entrapment is a common dystopian trope and ONeill introduces this through her protagonist Freida. Immediately the passage starts off with the narrator explaining how she cant sleep even after taking SleepSound, this description instantly alerts readers and makes…

Both Orwell and Atwood explore and present how two dystopian societies are completely controlled by different despotic regimes that restrict freedoms. In order to preserve the totalitarian states the secret police in both The Handmaids tale and 1984 the secret police invade and terrorise the personal lives of civilians so they are too scared to…

According to Terri Chungs Dystopian Literature Primer, we learn that a dystopia is 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. If we acknowledge, Hulus original series, The Handmaids Tale, we can come to conclusion that the…