Essays on Dystopia
A dystopia is a fictional story depicting an imaginary society organized in such a way that it prevents its members from achieving happiness. I will develop the subject in three parts. We will discover dystopias in films while moving on to social networks and end with my point of view. First of all, some films...
The dictionary defines a dystopia as “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.” However, many futuristic novels and movies present a dystopian society as one that lives effortlessly, showing that the world will never be perfect, even if it may seem so....
How do the dystopian elements in George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” present an oppressive society? Oppression could be defined as “prolonged cruel or unjust treatment of authority”, thus is present in both George Orwell’s dystopian novels “Animal Farm” and “1984” as such simple and complex aspects of tyranny are integrated into the texts in...
In Gattaca and The Handmaid’s Tale, both texts explore the idea of dystopian worlds and how they can cause negative impacts to society and lead to oppression. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the community is highly influenced by a social hierarchy, which is used to oppress many people into thinking their world of old fashioned discrimination...
Dystopian theme is a controlled system, which is an illusion of a perfect society. This is shown through the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball and text The lord flies by William Golding. The Maze Runner is about a boy who woke up in a metal cage in futuristic time zone with no memory...
Gattaca, a dystopian society, creates the illusion of perfection by hiding under a mask of a utopia. Every individual knows their place in the social hierarchy and is passive and accepts it. A brutal system has been unintentionally created by the simple thoughts of man and their utilisation of new scientific inventions. Underneath this clean...
