🔵Dystopian literature🔵
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From movies to novels to video games, dystopian fiction is consistently one of the hottest genres in entertainment. But given its broad scope and variety of forms, the dystopian genre can sometimes be hard to categorize. What is dystopian fiction? What are its defining features and how can we account for its enduring popularity? This article will define dystopian fiction, explain its purpose and function, and provide important examples of it from across the storytelling spectrum.
So, let's begin with some basic information about the Dystopian literature.
⚫ introduction ⚫
A dystopia is a fictional community or society that is undesirable or frightening. Dystopian literature is a form of speculative fiction that began as a response to utopian literature. A dystopia is an imagined community or society that is dehumanizing and frightening. A dystopia is an antonym of a utopia, which is a perfect society.
⚫ What is Dystopian Fiction? Definition and Characteristics ⚫
👉 First, let’s define Utopia and Dystopia
A Utopia is considered an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. The idea of it is derived from a 1516 book by Sir Thomas More that describes an imaginary ideal society free of poverty and suffering.
Examples of utopia include the mystical “Shangri-la” from the 1933 novel Lost Horizon and the 23rd century Earth depicted in Star Tr ek .
Dystopia is the opposite of utopia: a state in which the conditions of human life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror . A dystopian society is characterized by human misery in the form of squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war. Below is an example of a real dystopia in present-day Syria.
Other real life dystopias include the massive fire destruction in the Western United States due to climate change; and the pandemic raging through authoritarian countries such as India and Brazil.
⚫Characteristics of Dystopian Fiction⚫
👉What is Dystopian Fiction?
The dystopian genre imagines worlds or societies where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror, and human society is characterized by human misery, such as squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war.
Dystopian fiction worlds whether in novels, films, comic books/graphic novels, or video games tend to contain many of the same narrative features. Common elements of dystopian fiction include societies engaged in forever wars, and characterized by extreme social and economic class divides, mass poverty, environmental devastation, anarchy, and loss of individuality.
As the video details, social control is another major feature of dystopian fiction. Dystopian authors represent social control as wielded by...more
⚫ Dystopian Novels ⚫
👉What was the first dystopian novel?
Before Ernest Cline's “Ready Player One ”, George Orwell's “Ninteen Eighty-Four ” and Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World”, there was Yevgeni Zamyatin's “We ”, the first dystopian novel ever written.
👉The First Dystopian Novel
Before Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One”, George Orwell’s “Ninteen Eighty-Four” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, there was Yevgeni Zamyatin’s “We”, the first dystopian novel ever written. The book is a satire on life in a collectivist futuristic state, “One State”, located in the middle of a wild jungle...more
In June 1949, three years before George Orwell published his last novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, he reviewed “We” for the London Tribune readers. At that time, Orwell suggested that Zamyatin’s book was influential to the writing of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and recommended it to readers as “in effect a study of the Machine”...more
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society...more
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"The 30 Best Dystopian Novels in English Literature" 🟠
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
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The Children of Men by P.D. James
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
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The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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⚫List of dystopian literature⚫
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
18th century
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it".
The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed as ...more
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⚫ Types of Dystopian Literature:
Environmental destruction: The topic of environmental destruction is becoming more common in all types of young adult fiction. …
Nuclear Disaster: ...
Government control: ...
Religious Control: ...
Technological Control: ...
Survival: ...
Loss of Individualism:
Environmental destruction:
Environmental destruction:
The topic of environmental destruction is becoming more common in all types of young adult fiction. Therefore, it is no surprise that dystopian novels are embracing the shock factor of environmental destruction in their novels. Some of the environmental themes include peak oil, loss of forest and natural vegetation, desertification and extreme weather.
Nuclear Disaster:
Often dystopian novels are set in a world that was previously obliterated and no longer inhabitable. In this case, the characters may be living in ruins, or they may be living in an underground shelter, protected from the harmful radiation and horrible conditions. In this dystopian setting, the world is very controlled and many live in fear.
Government control:
Government control is the most common theme in dystopian novels. Often, the government is the cause of the dystopian world and problems that are encountered by the characters in the novel. As a result of government control, the population can experience horrible living conditions, environmental destruction or a loss of the individual. As a result of government control the population will often break out in civil war to counteract the government.
Religious Control:
Similar to government control, religious control is very commonly found in dystopian literature. In this case, the religion controls the population by making them fear that certain actions or characteristics are sins or blasphemies. This control will often result in a portion of the population fleeing the community or a revolt.
Technological Control:
Technological Control:
Technological control is a theme that is often mixed in with another central theme to create the dystopian setting. Technological control can include physically controlling the characters using technology, controlling a city, controlling people’s minds and many other forms.
Survival:
The fact that survival comes up in dystopian novels should be no surprise. Very often, the quest for survival is a result of one of the other themes described here including government control and environmental destruction. This quest for survival makes for an exciting story line and unexpected twists.
Loss of Individualism:
Loss of individualism can be found in many dystopian novels. Most often this loss is a control of physical appearance, but it can also be a loss of individual choice. In dystopian novels, this loss goes unnoticed until an individual recognizes a different way to live and raises awareness amongst others.
⚫ conclusion ⚫
As seen here, many dystopian texts share similar characteristics and themes. But in conclusion, authors, when writing dystopian texts, want to give an important message about society to the audience. ... Dystopian texts might exaggerate things but if you think about it, those “fantasies” are not far from the truth.
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