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streets. The winner has to go on a victory tour celebrating and feasting at each district, while those who had a family member killed in the games suffer in silence and pretend to be happy for the winner. The winner is also set up for life, receiving more food in a month then an average family would live off for a

dehumanising and as unpleasant as possible. Unlike Utopia, a society of perfect and desirable qualities that enable its citizens to live a peaceful and long life, dystopian literature investigates a protagonist rebelling against society and its systems, exploring on the way concepts such as individuality, freedom, class distinction, repression, religion and advanced technology.

societies seem like possible future situations, they are generally considered to be fictional outcomes. One cause of the continued success of YA dystopian fiction is how it examines and challenges gender stereotypes and norms. Although it is becoming more common to have female protagonists in general, it still is not quite as common to have strong feminine

good examples of what a dystopian world is. Each story has good descriptions of dystopian society and world looks like. They all show how people are in a dystopian world. In the three stories you can also tell the difference between dystopias and utopias. In "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", Ursula Le Guin tells a story about a town called Omelas, a dystopian town. In the story, at first Guin describes Omela’s as an extremely perfect town, but it turns out not as perfect as it came of too be

Candide In 1 Corinthians of the Bible it is said that, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs” (NIV, 1 Cor 13 4-5). However, this is not always the case, love can be: afflicting, painful, and self-involved. When this is the case, one must ask: is this really love? book of Candide is based on a love story between a man named, Candide, and a woman

make to spark renewed perceptions of society in the audience, hoping that they will come away questioning their world This same message in ‘Fahrenheit 451’, which highlights the battle between power and humanism, something perhaps that has never been more relevant than in our very own society. In ‘The Tempest’ we see two distinct layers of discovery, those that the characters make, and the resultant discoveries of the audience. Throughout history, we have witnessed discoveries purely driven by materialism

dystopias have always been given a bad reputation for being detrimental to a society. However, this belief does not represent the positives of a society being dystopian. It is known that any dystopia, a detrimental society, was created originally as a utopia, a pleasant society. This means that any dystopia was started with the hope of helping people, but since no government can make everyone happy, the society eventually breaks down into a dystopia.The fact that many dystopias are rooted in good intentions

Over the past few centuries the word "utopia" has developed a variety of meanings: a perfect state, paradise, heaven on earth, but the original definition of the word means something quite different. "Utopia", coined by Saint Thomas More in his famous work Utopia, written during the English Renaissance, literally means "nowhere". It is ironic that a word meaning nowhere has become a catchall phrase for paradise. More’s work is popular because of its wit, its use of metaphor, and its proposals for

back in New York – gender and their roles have been eliminated, childbearing now takes place in laboratories, and many other social problems (such as poverty and inequalities) that plague Connie have been fixed in some way. While technology seems much more advanced in the future, it also appears somewhat nonexistent. The people of Mattapoisett focus on expending their energy on things they’ve decided to be essential for basic survival. Connie exclaims of the future, “It’s not like I imagined.” – “Most

Many people often dream of a utopia, a perfect world with no poverty, crime, or disease. This is made possible in the short story, “All the Troubles of the World,” by Issac Asimov, in which a super computer named Multivac is able to rid the world of crime by predicting them beforehand. One day, Multivac decides to commit suicide by giving instructions to a young boy named Ben Manners on how to turn itself off. However, Multivac is unable to not report its own crime, tipping off the government and