Dystopia In 1984 By George Orwell

Many characteristics of the American made society that we live in now demonstrate a utopia, therefore, they also demonstrate a dystopia. A utopia is a perfect world in which there are no problems like war, disease, poverty, oppression, discrimination, inequality, and other. A dystopia is a world in which nothing is perfect. Problems are extreme things are dysfunctional and problematic. I believe that a utopia doesn’t turn into a dystopia until the people living in that society don’t live authentic lives. "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (Orwell 72) This quote to me shows that the people in the society of a dystopia often do not even realize that they are not

These things are also in some ways characteristics of a utopia. A strong leader (president), commercials used to advertise luxuries and ways of society, and constant surveillance to prevent crime against the citizens. "She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her." (Orwell 67) This is much like how the people of our society follow the government somewhat blindly. People in the military are willing to give their life to protect our country, sometimes without knowing all the reasons why they are fighting. We believe that we are fighting to protect the country that gives us our freedoms and rights. However, I feel that we don’t share all the characteristics of a dystopia that Oceania does. They live in fear of the outside world, they live in a dehumanized state, their freedoms of information, individual thought, and freedom are restricted, and they conform to all of the uniform expectations. I believe that the society that we live in now, does not share those

It was named "a decompression-chamber for city freaks.” It became quite popular while it existed, however, after much pressure from the surrounding world, people began to vacate the new society. Now much of the property has been developed and overtaken by a truck repair facility. They were trying to defy the societal norms, however, couldn’t live without the advantages of everyday society. When they tried to make their life a utopia, it failed because they needed more aspects of a normal societal life. One of the downfalls was the fact that the group members building the domes made out trash, had little building experience. It became a lab for experimental building with extremely cheap materials, and was later honored with a Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.” However, living in a literal trash pit became increasingly unappealing for the members of the society. They had no clear leader, in fact “the only rule (society members had) was that there was no bosses.” (Richert) To me this is a disadvantage because the lack of a clear leader makes the civilization an out of control hippie civilization. The average person in the society was shaggy and unclean, and was very skinny. This was not a very healthy society, as many of them resemble the homeless. In many ways this is a dystopia because they believed that they had the freedoms to do as they pleased, whereas they needed