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What is a dystopia?

By: Noelia Guerra, Marcos de Isidro, Javier Martínez and Diogo Ribeiro

What is a dystopia?

A dystopia is a futuristic imagined universe in its which society is heavily controlled and oppressed, living in dehumanized conditions, but is portrayed as the illusion of a perfect society that is maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. They are exaggerated scenarios that criticizes our current living situation.

Main ideas

Characteristics

Characteristics

• Propaganda used to control the citizens

• Freedom of speech, independent thought and access to information is restricted.

• A concept is worshipped by the citizens

• Under constant supervision.

• Fear of the outside world and change.

• Dehumanized state, with horrible living conditions.

• The natural world is banished and distrusted.

• Fear individuality and don’t consider disobedience.

•Illusion of a perfect utopian world

Types of dystopian control:

• Corporate control

• Bureaucratic control

• Technological control

• Philosophical / religious control

Types of dystopian control

The dystopian protagonist:

The dystopian protagonist

  • They often feel trapped in their living situation and struggle to escape or change it.
  • They question the existing social norms, the system imposed and the political system.
  • They believe or feel something is wrong with the society in which they live.
  • They show to the reader, through their perspective, the negative and unconvential aspects of the dystopian world.

Why dystopian fiction is so popular among teenagers and young people?

Dystopian fiction

• It is said that books set in either chaotic or strictly controlled societies mirror a teenager's life.

• Dystopian fiction is exciting, and the protagonists are usually young people.

• They are based essentially in heroes’ journeys, usually set in a futuristic world.

• The protagonist normal life is changed suddenly to the unknown, far from their routine of everyday life

• The protagonist destiny will change the world around them

• Older adults are always the ones in control of the system

• Protagonists deal with the same normal problems related to friendship, family, love, betrayal, death…

• Adults write dystopian books for teenagers with the hope that they learn something from it and change the future for better.

Dystopia in books

Examples of dystopia in fiction

1984

Fahrenheit 451

Brave New World

A Clockwork Orange

The Handmaid's Tale

Lord of the Flies

Examples of dystopian societies

Big Brother in 1984

Brave New World

Brave New World's caste system

Fahrenheit 451

Book burning in Fahrenheit 451

Dystopia in movies

Dystopia in movies

Examples of dystopian protagonists

Neo from The Matrix

Katniss from The Hunger Games

Katniss from The Hunger Games

It's The End Of The World by R.E.M.

Dystopia in songs

Skyfall by Adele

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