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    Dystopian society might be our future! No but it might be close. There are many ways we, humanity, might adopt dystopian fiction's success. After all we know about these imperfections and the success. Who is to say that we won't have a future like this. Dystopian fiction is likely to be part of our future, whether it is the literature or parts of the government being adopted. Some parts of our future that dystopian fiction can have on us could be our literature. Many people know this is a popular

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    Dystopian literature is often displayed by some distinguishable characteristics from regular literature (which would take place in a non-dystopian society). Authors of dystopian literature would normally use different elements in order to portray these different characteristics such as characters, plot (elements), or the language or word choice that is used. The novel Brave New World takes place in a distant future where mostly everything, including human beings, is mass produced. There is a person

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    Dystopian societies and modern day societies have various opinions on what should be valued. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows a dystopian society that contrasts today's modern day society. The concepts of knowledge and communication are shown throughout the book in different ways than are seen in today’s modern day society. Knowledge is one idea that has conflicting meanings. The importance of knowledge is demonstrated in different ways between dystopian society and modern day

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    Themes in Dystopian Literature and Movies Martin Luther King said before, “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” In today’s society, the scientific power control the misguided men and will hurt our community. Dystopian literature and movies relate to the Bible in the themes of destiny, conformity and passion. The first dystopian theme is destiny, which shows destiny is already planned. According to the Bible, “ ‘For I know the plans I

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    Young adult dystopian novels also critique politicians and when they are “read most positively,” they show “inequities and injustices” in governmental systems (Alexander and Black 223). Carrie Hintz and Elaine Ostry wrote in their book Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults, “Utopian literature encourages young people to view their society with a critical eye, sensitizing or predisposing them to political action” and “Exposure to these types of texts can lead young readers to

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    Dystopian literature is a genre of literature that explores social and political structures. Divergent is placed into the dystopian literary genre because the novel shows great amount of loss of identity,and government structure. The novel shows a good amount of loss of identity within the character Beatrice later known as Tris. The whole novel is revolved around the government structure, because they are controlling everything everyone does in the factions. Therefore Divergent is placed in the dystopian

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    The ideas surrounding utopian and dystopian societies are popular because they support the idea that a perfect society can’t and doesn’t exist, and that our individuality is a part of us that cannot be taken away. As of now, there is more than enough hatred to go around in the world, so books, movies, TV shows, etc. that demonstrate the idea of a utopia falling apart are popular. They remind the Earth that people shouldn’t try to make everybody get along. There will be unrest and hate, but that is

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    The Prison Manufactured by a Dystopian Society Throughout the semester, many pieces of literature was introduced that presented the theme of dystopian societies suppressing their citizens. These pieces ranged from printed books describing fictional characters’ struggles, to a film fabricating a fictional, civil imprisonment of an ignorant man, and even real-world examples of governmental control. All the authors were able to construct this idea of most commonly a government or some sort of controlling

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    The trend in dystopian societies is very intriguing and so vivid. Dystopian societies dictate many characteristics as leaders and followers usually one coming out from the shade to lead their small groups to rebel against order. Through, James Dashner literature the maze runner series he greatly displays challenges of the protagonist in a fallen society. He also takes his text to the next level by being able to display hopelessness in a series of challenges, with struggles with fear in courage as

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    Dystopian literature has gained a significant amount of attention the past few years. This specific genre of writing has assisted in revealing many social issues in our society today where power systems have overstepped their authority. These novels have become pivotal components of today's world by giving citizens a worst case scenario for our future, spurring hope our current society can alter enough to avoid mass disaster. Reading in between the lines of dystopian novels allows the reader to gain

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