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    Looking back at the past few years of books, you might notice a pattern: dystopian societies. I’m sure that the entire population has to have at least heard about the Hunger Games, Divergent, or any number of other titles. Yet, have you ever given any thought whatsoever to imagining yourself in one of those broken societies? I, for one hadn’t thought much about it, despite reading all of the most recent must-reads. It brings up an interesting question: what would you be willing to stand up for, to

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    several contrast between modern day society, which is present day, today, and a dystopian society, which is the novel, TheGiver, where everything is unpleasant or bad and not okay. The novel, TheGiver, emphasis on unfairness, sameness, lack of individuality, and emotionless. The people living in the community are treated like robots. Modern society, and the dystopian society, has numerous of similarities and numerous of differences. Modern day civilization and dystopian civilization has various resemblances

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    You would be living in a Dystopian society. A Dystopian society is a horribly unpleasant place in which everything goes wrong. Authors use Dystopian society's a lot in novels. Imagine if the world was one giant Dystopian Fiction. A Dystopian Fiction could have many negative effects on the world. One of the many negative effects could be violence. In a Dystopia, there can be a lot of violence because nobody is happy. Everybody is in so much fear. While writing Dystopian novels, an author "magnifies

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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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    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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    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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    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 Dystopian Society According to German author, Heinrich Heine, “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” This quote relates to the book burning and the consequences in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451, the government bans all printed materials, and the firefighters are responsible to enforce the book-banning law. The firefighters’ job in this dystopian, emotionless, egalitarian society is to burn the houses that contain books. This society depends

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    What do you know about a Utopian and Dystopian society? Some people may think that a Utopian society such as ¨The Giver¨ society is more significant because the society has control and equality but why? The society that is proclaimed to be perfect isn´t so perfect after all. The Giver society and our society today have many things that are different such as leadership, freedom, and laws. But also have some things in common. The Givers society and the society we live in today have differences but

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