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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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    Dystopian Life “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (Lowry) In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, life seems peachy keen. Everyone seems to be happy enough, because they have “sameness”, in which everyone is exactly alike. No emotions. No thoughts. No individuality. No memories of the past. It makes the world seem utopian. Without emotions, no one feels hurt. Without individuality, nothing bad can happen. However, this is

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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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    Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” - Kofi Annan. This quote states that education is the key to power and guiding others. The main character in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, lives in a dystopian society where people have lost their will to think and communicate with others. In Montag’s society, books are prohibited from civilians because they are deemed offensive, ultimately causing the brain dead downfall of their society. Montag’s profession

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    entire lifestyle in order to impress his long time love interest, Daisy. In the end, he realized that all of the material things did not matter and his American dream was tied to his love for her. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was the first dystopian book series I read. I loved it and it sparked my love for mystery novels. Collins allowed me to feel everything with Katniss and the other characters. The idea of turning children against each other for the public’s entertainment still leaves me

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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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    The movie The Truman Show was an extraordinary example of how a dystopian movie should be, such as how the producer made it timeless. Such as leaving out dates and making it seem as Truman was living the same day over and over again. He also made The Truman Show timeless by not letting us see things that would be changed drastically such or making the tech slightly ahead of it’s time. Another way the producer did that was ingenious was including societal issues and issues that make you think such

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    collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do so, such as political theory and speculative dystopian fiction. By using lenses to analyze the society in which we live, we are able to recognize seeds of both prosperity and destruction in our society that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored. The speculative dystopian fiction of Octavia Butler may be considered as building upon the political theory of the tragedy of the commons. Butler provides her American

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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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