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"I think it's dumb!" Liam blurted out. Everyone immediately started looking at him. "I mean, if we inhale too much helium, it's bad for our lungs and our voices will sound really light." Liam glanced at Matthew Caldwell's stopwatch. Twenty seven seconds for the day, and 44 seconds average. Liam's on the other hand, had 1:22 for the day and 3:46 for his average. What they were looking at was their stopwatches. The stopwatches were what timed how long they talked and also timed there average amount of time that they talked. If their average was over a minute, a government official might catch them and they could be in jail or executed. Completely up to the mood of the government.

Huxley’s Brave New World masterpiece depicts a dystopian civilization, product of the emancipation of the values from the industrial revolution, which has deliberately chosen to pursue collective happiness and forget individual liberties. This example of society is pertinent to be analyzed from a Freudian perspective, specifically from the discoveries made in Civilization and Its Discontents since they relate the internal issues that an individual experience in a community. In this essay, I argue that Huxley’s dystopian society liberates effectively its members from the three sources of human suffering derived by Freud, and imposes a combination of three paths, categorized in Civilization and Its Discontents, to fulfill the reality principle

Dystopian literature highlights social flaws. It enforces the acceptance of imperfection, and the questioning of social practice. The idea of a perfect world may be great, but the reality of it is not. Not only that but it goes to show that there is no such thing as perfect, and that perfection is overrated.

A dystopian society is a society that is ruled under a government that makes unfair laws for the people or prohibit people from doing certain things. One could formulate that Joseph Stalin, a quite audacity, and unflappable Russian leader during the livid, maniacal, times of WW2, for example, made many changes to the Soviet Union (USSR and/or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) that impacted many people and their lives. “You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.” (Joseph Stalin; Inspiringquotes.us). Some facts are, Joseph Stalin made many changes during his reign over the USSR, how his choices impacted other citizens lives in the USSR, and the genres of literature that were used.

Some people may think that a dystopia is only in books and has never happened or will never happen. Those people are wrong; dystopian societies are all around us in countries who are controlled by one ruler and have no rites like Cuba and North Korea. Nazi Germany was also a dystopia and had a lot of the dystopian themes like chaos, destruction, censorship, and a bad quality of life. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak shows us chaos in his use of metaphors, Kristallnacht as rising action, and the symbol of a graveyard.

I look to the right of my bed and it’s there; crouching beside me. Its face is pure white and doesn’t resemble skin at all, but a shining porcelain. The monster doesn’t have a mouth - there is just skin running down from the bottom of its nose to its chin. Shielding it’s beady eyes are a pair of raven-black goggles strapped to its bald head. It wears what resembles a completely circular helmet the colour of a neon orange and its hands are covered in tactical gloves, dark as a jet-black night. It wears an amber jumpsuit and stare into my soul. Its wretched face is about five centimetres away from mine and I can feel an ice cold breath creep onto my forehead.The creatures body is hunched over and strange

A dystopian society, usually illusory, is the reverse of an idyllic utopia: it is generally tyrannical and inhibited. Dystopian societies mirror our future- they are usually a hyperbolic familiar society with satirical exaggeration. This kind of literature is written to amend other people 's idea of the kind of society they should thrive for. As well as that, they are written to express their concerns about the future and humanity. Societies of this nature appear in many works of fiction, predominantly in novels set in a speculative future. Dystopian culture is often mused by societal collapse, dehumanization, poverty, and deprivation.

John lives with his wife, patricia and a daughter named sia in a big, fancy mansion. John and patricia own the best coffee shop in the town, dystopia. Sia loves the pumpkin spice latte with strawberry whip cream. The coffee shop became popular when sia was born five years ago, 2116. The chocklit family do grocery shopping in macadame loft for their coffee shop. Everyone in 2121 in Dystopia pay with their face. There are security scanning machines with facial recognition system. Everyone pays with their face in the coffee shop. One day, a young man ordered a chocolate, whipped cappucino and almost walked out the door.

Everything in the world always eventually ends or falls. People die, objects disintegrate, countries fall, methods and ideas disappear, and many other things die off. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, had Big Brother having full power over the country of Oceania. Many of the people in the story’s Dystopia believed that Big Brother will never fall. The ones who rebel against the Party and Big Brother know that Big Brother will fall.

First, a dystopian society is characterized by, among other things: the use of propaganda to control citizens, the restriction of information and independent thought, the constant surveillance of citizens, and the worshipping of a figurehead. We can see these characteristics very clearly in the extreme and cruel Nazi Germany created by Hitler. He used lies to deter Germany’s citizens and restricted the flow of information. Independent thought and freedom of will were against the law, and the people were under constant watch to ensure they did exactly as the government wanted. “If people are to die in the war I will not spend time on them because they did not deserve better, and if we lose than I shall not show sorrow.” (Hitler Remember.org.)

Science is always attempting to cure ailments of humans, such as cancer; however, do all ailments need to be cured? In Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s “2 B R 0 2 B,” death and old age has been cured, creating a utopia in concept; however, upon closer inspection, the society is a dystopian society driven by suicide. In current times, suicide is a plague that science is attempting to help bring down; however, in “2 B R 0 2 B,” suicide is the only way to allow a newborn child to survive, a national department was created, and people became willfully ignorant of what occurs in the department. Through this dreary image of a society, one character gives insight to the true nature- the painter, a nameless character whose role in the story is to paint a

People may think that dystopians are completely different to our society, which is true but they can be the same, the books Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, and “Harrison Bergeron” are all examples of dystopian societies and they are very similar and different form this society. in a dystopian society, Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted, the society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world, and The natural world is banished and distrusted. Some things about this society can be similar but there are more contrast than

The second coming by William Butler Yeats discusses the idea of the gyre which is everything starts at the center and then slowly falls apart on the outside while another thing is being reborn and in doing the same thing on the opposite end. This poem is a dystopia which is the opposite of utopia a world where social problems are magnified and the quality of life is extremely low. The walking dead television show is also a dystopia and can be tied to this poem. In both the second coming and the walking dead a person can draw conclusions about how society slowly moves away and breaks apart.

The dystopian novels we have read in class and the discussions on the United States is more advanced than other countries had me thinking of robots. As a child there were so many robot movies with the premise that robots would one day walk among us. Then, because we are destroying ourselves and our planet or they are smarter, they would take over and sometimes even kill/enslave humans. With this perception in mind, I was startled when I read a Facebook article tittle, “Realistic Robot Lady Cheerfully Agrees to Destroy Humans.” Of course because it was on Facebook, my first reaction was to overlook it, but then I thought about the dystopian novels and had to read it. It was an article in Discovery News by Alyssa Danigelis and I found many other

One night, a very dark night, trouble was lurking in the shadows. You could just smell it in the air everywhere you go. It was like choking on a dark cloud filled with danger. Legend has it that it targets one person until they die. It fills them with dreadful thoughts, making them do bad deeds, and leading them to suicide. Today it chose to pick me...