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Or Imagine a society in which

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Utopia's and Dystopia's in English literature

by Berna de Vries [6VWO]

Themes in dystopian novels

  • The Danger of a Particular Type of Government
  • The Importance of Knowledge and Truth
  • The Danger of a Particular Policy
  • The Danger of Allowing One Group to Have Too Much Power
  • The Importance of Free Will and Individuality
  • The Danger of Technology
  • The Danger of Desensitization
  • The Importance of Humanity
  • The Danger of Human Nature

So imagine a world where..

..Love has been diagnosed as a disease!

.. But thankfully a cure has been found, and all young people are required to get this cure at the age of 18.

..War, hunger, suffering and diseases are eliminated along with the freedom to have your own emotions, will, and mind. In this society, humans are "conceived and mass-produced in test tubes and are genetically engineered with standardized traits " (Critical Survey of Long Fiction 2).

"And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny." (Brave New World, Chapter 1, pg. 16)

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  • Utopian literature (definition, characteristics, examples

(definition and characteristics examples)

Utopia VS Dystopia

  • Dystopian literature

also: the different themes in dysopia's

Definition: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

Dystopia

Utopia

  • refers to an ideal place in which all aspects are perfect or nearly so.

  • The concept name was created by Sir Thomas More in 1516 as the title of his book, Utopia, was a fictional description of an island that had the qualities of perfection

In an utopian novel there is:

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  • peace
  • unity
  • equality
  • happiness
  • individuality
  • free of crime, violence and war

Sir Thomas Moore

source: Terri Chung, NSCC English instructor,

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