A Dystopian

One night, a very dark night, trouble was lurking in the shadows. You could just smell it in the air everywhere you go. It was like choking on a dark cloud filled with danger. Legend has it that it targets one person until they die. It fills them with dreadful thoughts, making them do bad deeds, and leading them to suicide. Today it chose to pick me...

I look to the right of my bed and it’s there; crouching beside me. Its face is pure white and doesn’t resemble skin at all, but a shining porcelain. The monster doesn’t have a mouth - there is just skin running down from the bottom of its nose to its chin. Shielding it’s beady eyes are a pair of raven-black goggles strapped to its bald head. It wears what resembles a completely circular helmet the colour of a neon orange and its hands are covered in tactical gloves, dark as a jet-black night. It wears an amber jumpsuit and stare into my soul. Its wretched face is about five centimetres away from mine and I can feel an ice cold breath creep onto my forehead.The creatures body is hunched over and strange

In what country does the most democratic society exist? In today’s world, the United States is the well-known example. The democracy in the United States makes it possible to secure one’s economic freedom without government interruption, alternatively termed capitalism. In modern world, the contemporary take on capitalism is consumerism. Ironically, given that capitalism is part of democracy, it is not equally distributed. The presence of social class separates one consumer from another and restricts one’s ability to purchase his or her want. Even with this constraint, consumerism is widely practiced right in democracy. Although the consequences of practicing consumerism are not apparent to everyone, Aldous Huxley discloses the detrimental impact of consumerism in society. He depicts two fictional societies in his works: the dystopian society of the World State in the Brave New World and the utopian society of Pala in Island. In both works, Huxley warns the readers about the influence of consumerism by illustrating its usage in manipulating individual thoughts in the World State and its function in bringing materialism to Pala.

Dystopian societies are themes often used in writing. A dystopian society is the imbalance of power between certain citizens and the government exerting total control over those people. One such example is Hitler and his Nazi regime. If one were to analyze the data, one could examine decisions Adolf Hitler made in creating the dystopian society of Nazi Germany, and the impact those decisions had on the citizens at the time; additionally, a review of how authors use dystopian-themed stories as a means to educate readers about dystopia will be addressed.

Looking backward to the last essay, which I envision our world end up in a dystopian future. After our readings and discussions, I have reinforced my stance on dystopias. Even though global climate changes were a threat to us for a long time, and it has the ability to turn our world in a truly dystopian future. But rather than finding a solution for this threat, our human nature hypnotized ourselves that everything will go to work out by itself. And also thanks to the greedy side of human nature, we are more concerned in how to profit it. In the final stage, where people began to fight for resources, don 't expect the police to establish order for us since they have already turned against us. After all, the main reason for me to reinforced

Many novels, as well as video games, deal with texts of the dystopic genre. Dystopia has become an instrumental form of literature in all countries; however, some texts are better at relaying their message than others. For example, in the video game, The Last of Us, the two protagonists, one adult male and one young girl, fight through hordes of “the infected”. They do so in order to save mankind from utter extinction. Despite being a video game, this text captures the quintessential elements needed in order to become a relatable piece of work and does so by making both Joel and Ellie (the protagonists) truthful characters. In addition to The Last of Us, the novel The Running Man, by Steven King, also deals with the topic of dystopia. This

Brave New World a book written by Aldous Huxley illustrates an extremely utopian dystopia. With the government known as the World State valuing stability above all else going as far as to consider stability an essential part of happiness. Huxley argues the World State gives up far too much history, art, and emotion to equate to the level of pleasure and stability. These artifacts help to accentuate the ups and downs of life. This fluctuation is what makes life worth living. Any medication commercial shows that if you are affected by a constant low then you are afflicted by depression and could begin to develop suicidal thoughts. However, the opposite is also true Huxley presents this trough John at the end of the book.

The foreshadowing between the world today and 1984 is prevalent on surveillance. The monitoring that is depicted in todays news, shows the population an insight of the capabilities people have in surveilling an individual. Although in George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ it takes surveillance to an extreme, there are correlations between our world and the dystopia described by Orwell. It is amicable to compare ‘1984’ to our world today, from recent revelations revealing the ‘truth’ behind our current government.

Written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World portrays a futuristic dystopia in which the World State’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” and therefore individuality must be surrendered for the state. In this society, the emphasis is on consumption. Citizens are not only discouraged from isolation but they are always meant to be kept preoccupied with either their preconditioned jobs or pleasure through soma, sex, or technological advances. This oppressive society conveys the idea that modern life and the changes in human culture threaten the primitive essence of human beings. The same can be said for Walker Percy

“1984”, a dystopian novel by George Orwell describes a totalitarian government under the control of Big Brother, the most powerful figure in the government. Winston Smith, the main character passionately hates the Party and its leader Big Brother who govern the country Oceania in which he lives. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, as an editor. He is responsible for historical revisionism; he rewrites records and alters photographs to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history itself, rendering the deleted people "unpersons". The original documents are destroyed by fire in a “memory hole". Winston takes part in enormous propaganda machine, that alters the present and future by rewriting

What makes a story a story? One of the first modern dystopian novels was 1984 written by George Orwell in the 1940’s. Since then, there has been a plethora of dystopian novels, following the same “rules” a 1984. These “rules” are included the novel Feed. The “ rules” that the author follows are characteristics of the dystopian society, the types of dystopian controls on the society, and lastly the characteristics of the protagonist.

The first stanza of Yeats's “The Second Coming” describes the upheaval warfare has caused through its brutality

In the Fordian society envisioned by Aldous Huxley, control is seen as something that essential to maintain order. Thoughts, actions, and words of those living in the World State are strictly enforced from within. Conditioning, decanting, hypnopedia, and a variety of other words describe the processes used to create this dystopian world devoid of deep thought. A world where “when the individual feels, the community reels” (Huxley 63), a place where everyone is a raft drifting in an ocean under a dark clouded sky.

Divergent is a book based on a dystopian society that evolved out of a revolution against the government. The government split the society into factions where the people worked and lived. People were tested before the faction ceremony to see what faction they would fit into. The government created factions to keep peace across the nation. Tris is in the dauntless faction because she wants to start a revolution not because she is competitive like all the other Dauntless.

Would you prefer to know the darkest and most dreadful truths that are concealed on this planet we call home, or would you prefer to live in a state of blissful ignorance? This is the first question raised in the film ‘The Matrix’ by Andy Wachowski. The film is based around the hacker named ‘Neo’, and his journey to knowing the awful truth about the state humanity and himself were actually in. While doing this his perspective of everything was warped as he realised the things he believed in, were no longer true. Neo’s adventure through the Matrix was not the ideal environment for the average human being, and because of this it made it the perfect dystopian environment. The idea of living in a dystopian world is something all mature humans