A Dystopian Society

The novel “Matched” by Ally Condie follows a character named Cassia Reyes. She is faced with many problems, but is determined to solve them. For example, she is matched with a boy in her province who is named Xander, which is rare, but she starts to fall in love with a different boy … Ky. The society knew that Ky was Cassia’s real match, so they established a test to see if she would follow the rules or break them. The society has many standards that the citizens are supposed to follow, such as eating for health, not flavor, or being being told what age you must get married. To advantageously portray the theme of the novel, Condie uses strong imagery and foreshadowing that thickens the storyline and engages the reader.

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

Roth’s, Divergent has elements of a dystopian setting, and it is a possible warning for our society. Though the novel primary reveals to be dystopian, there were originally good intentions of a utopian society. Harmon describes a utopian society as, “a perfect political state that is an imaginary ideal world,” (Harmon 492). No society is created to become the epitome of destruction. The Abnegation government created the factions to act as each working part of a successful society. They must have had a utopian mindset before the society shifted by elements that led to dystopia. Harmon also examines a dystopian society as a, “bad place.” He continues by describing, “Imaginary worlds, usually in the future, in which present tendencies are carried out

A dystopian society is an illusion of a perfect society. Think of a world where having fun isn’t allowed. Nothing that has been created is fun no sports, no computer games, no music and everything in life has a purpose. You are forced to work for the rest of your life a job that the government chose. The government chooses who you are going to marry, where you are going to live and how much you are going to make. However, one person is assigned a job that he enjoyed and is fun. It is so fun that he become the best in the field. He then goes on to become the boss of everybody in that field and starts to boss around the people at the firm. If somebody says something that he does not agree with they get fired. The keys aspect of a dystopian society can either be a control of information, a singularity in power or ruling in fear and the purpose of these stories to the reader is what would happen if we let it run its course?

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens whereas a dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically being a totalitarian or environmentally degraded society. The world of 2BR02B, can be considered both a utopian, and a dystopian society. Some things about it make it seem like that it’s a perfect world but there are other aspects of it that make it seem like it’s a terrible world to live in. By considering 2BR02B a utopian society, we need to look at certain things.

Science is always attempting to cure ailments of humans, such as cancer; however, do all ailments need to be cured? In Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s “2 B R 0 2 B,” death and old age has been cured, creating a utopia in concept; however, upon closer inspection, the society is a dystopian society driven by suicide. In current times, suicide is a plague that science is attempting to help bring down; however, in “2 B R 0 2 B,” suicide is the only way to allow a newborn child to survive, a national department was created, and people became willfully ignorant of what occurs in the department. Through this dreary image of a society, one character gives insight to the true nature- the painter, a nameless character whose role in the story is to paint a

A dystopia the darkest form of government, a utopia gone wrong, a craving for power, struggling for fewer rules. The dystopia is factual the worst possible form of a government. Its the struggle to be so perfect that it fails. There are typically two types of dystopias first a monarchy. A monarchy is a group of people controlled by a king or queen, and they make every last decision. What they want they get. A monarchy is typically born like this example from lord of the flies. “He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them"(Golding 58). This shows that a monarchy starts by one just taking over from the start rather than being a

In Brave New World, the World State exhorts consumerism in order to maintain the society stable. and Island, Huxley draws comparisons between the two Utopian societies, Pala and the World State, and the real world. These comparisons are exhibited through explanations of each society’s characters. All the characters except the protagonist Bernard

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, human beings have been engineered and conditioned to have detailed traits and castes in society; however, the birthing methods of the world state seem virtually full proof, some characters in the novel deviate from this standard. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson both alpha plus males; share a dislike for the world state. Bernard abhors it because of his physical defect, Helmholtz because of his psychological surplus.

Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of the story, who is unhappy with himself, because of the way he interacts with other members of society. As the story progresses, the author suggests that, like soma, individuals can be kept content with giving them small pleasure over short periods of time. Thus, it is suggested in the book that if individuals would conform to their society’s norms, their lives would become much

What exactly is a dystopia, and how is it relevant today? E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops uses a dystopian society to show how one lives effortlessly, lacking knowledge of other places, in order to show that the world will never be perfect, even if it may seem so. A society whose citizens are kept ignorant and lazy, unknowing that they are being controlled, unfit to act if they did, all hidden under the guise of a perfect utopian haven, just as the one seen in The Machine Stops, could be becoming a very real possibility. There is a rational concern about this happening in today’s world that is shared by many, and with good reason. Dystopian worlds are often seen as fictitious, though this may not be the case in the

In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, a world culture universally partitioned by numerous distinct manufactured social castes is depicted. Bernard Marx is an individual belonging to the highest of said castes. That being established, however, Bernard is first met upon the self-discovered notion that he is a freak in relation to other fellow Alpha-Pluses. His apprehensive disgust is discovered in the Alpha Plus changing room when he observes Henry Foster and the Assistant Predestinator discussing Lenina Crowne as if she were a mere sexual object, and it is remarked, “Bernard hated them, hated them. But they were two, they were large, they were strong” (Huxley, 47). This glimpse into Bernard’s mind illustrates that though he

Imagine this… It is the 1960s. You live in city that seems like the perfect place to live and raise your ten children. This results from the fact that plentiful food is provided for you and your family. There is no reason for fighting or scavenging or even to take care of your children. What’s the point of ensuring your offspring know the basic survival skills if they have everything they need to survive in this utopia. Of course they will always have to worry about the roving bands of male bandits. Oh, and of course the slight chance their mother might decide to eat their children. The sheer ridiculousness of this is something that could only be found in a 1980s action flick; However in the 1960s this dystopia was home to 150 rats

There will always will be a power or a government with a society. Whether it be as small as a group or as large as a country. According to multiple sources, government has been around since the first city-state was created. Just by this source alone we demonstrate how society has always needed an order and power: Government. Dystopian: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Lord of the Flies, a novel that is realistic is the fact that it parallels with the real world. The moral that Golding was taking example of was the evil inside all of us. He created this novel to express dystopia, which was how boys were stuck on an island and how they created their