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    Dystopian Literature is fictional writing that criticizes trends, norms, and existing systems through an exaggerated worst-case scenario. In both Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report, the characteristics of the society being an illusion of a perfect utopian world and citizens under constant surveillance are displayed. Fahrenheit 451 and minority report both present characters living under an illusion of a perfect utopian world. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag describes his wife sleeping with her seashells

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    represent the people. It is the people’s choice to support, to select, and to seize government. In George Orwell’s “1984,” a dystopian society is removed from its values and freedoms through the manipulation of language and thus thought processes. Language has become a tool of mind control for the oppressive government. 1984 is a cautionary novel which explores a dystopian society stuck in propaganda and totalitarianism. The idea of open communication is employed as a way for people to choose the

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    What is life without emotion? How does a life in a dystopian society compare to modern day life, more specifically, to Lowry’s novel (The Giver).In the Giver Jonas was selected to be the receiver and received most of the memories, but with all of the wisdom he had attained he realized that his society was wrong. To begin with, a dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding, our modern society has equal opportunity and good jobs etc. For example

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    Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you lived in a place where you were always distracted by silly things like television and driving cars really fast, imagine books being illegal, would that be you utopian or dystopian society? The author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury made a world where a utopia was considered to have low standards of knowledge and education, people were distracted with things like tv, that they thought taught them, but Bradbury gave a turn to the book and made a

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    out her future with her new match/ old best friend xander in the book matched by ally condie. later on in the book she is shown a whole new side of the society and her eyes are open to what is really going on. in the book matched the society is dystopian because the society is the only authority and only trusted source of information. many people are scared of the outer provinces and citizens conform to the rules and expectations of the society. for starters, much information in the book is from

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    place? Women are administrated as tools for Gilead, how each woman performs their role and why they do that? Free will is primordial in human nature, so why did Gilead society occluded it? Those are topics to be discussed about this so intriguing dystopian society. As said before, Gilead is a flawless system to control humans and to avoid conflicts. But this is not necessarily a good thing. It is part of human nature that they communicate

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    A baron wasteland, on a desolate planet, where we are expected to survive on rations by our controlling government. This is the dystopian future we read about in books, and see in Hollywood films, but the SEA club on campus is trying to make this gloomy picture our future an idea left in the past. The Students for Environmental Action or the SEA club, which meets every Wednesday from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in the Index Hall room 101, are not only learning how to become more sustainable in a ever changing

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    Celsius 232.7, not as catchy as Fahrenheit 451, one is a temperature and the other tells a riveting story of irony, acceptance, and rebellion. Ray Bradbury tells the story of Guy Montag, a firefighter in what the current world would call a “Dystopian Future” in Fahrenheit 451. In the future, almost all books are banned and people instead watch tv, drive very fast, and commit suicide. Guy Montag’s job is a firefighter but the name is misleading; Guy, along with his fellow firefighters, do not put

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    Hello, my name Flower and today is August 25th, 2016. I will be writing this journal to talk about things that are happening in the society of Stoneton. Stoneton is a dystopian society, and it is a place where citizens followed certain people that have a complete control and the powers over everything. In Stoneton, citizens worship Adon. He is like the figurehead of the society. Adon is an old man. He have wrinkle face, grey hair, and grey beard. You will never see Adon in face to face, but you will

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    A utopian society is what is presented in The Giver book by Lois Lowry, it's a perfect place. In modern society there is a dystopian. There are some differences and similarities include family, government, and surrogates mothers in modern society and The Giver's world. One thing The Giver society has in common with modern society is family. In addition the family units are like foster families because they aren't blooded related, but they still live together. One of the major differences is that

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