Dystopias Essay

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Stefani Lane
English IV
King Jubenville
8 May 2014
Dystopias: Basic Elements and Themes.
Dystopian Literature would fall under the characteristics of a fiction that doesn’t show a positive view of society’s future and the future of mankind. The difference between dystopian fiction and utopian fiction is that in a utopia everything is advanced and happy and peaceful, and in a dystopia, things are actually the exact opposite. Dystopias usually show themes like nature, but it would be the earth dying, or the earth coming to life and turning against humans. Dystopias can actually have a advancement in technology, but they wouldn’t be positive ones. The advancement of technology would probably enslave the human race. Most dystopias are said to be “flourished” from 20th century circumstances. Allegiant has many basic elements, characteristics, and themes that make it a dystopian novel.
The characteristics of a dystopian society are of the following. Counter information is used to control the people of a certain society, regular information. Any type of freedom, and any thought that occurs independently is prohibited. One or a few concepts are worshipped by the people of said society. The people realize they are under constant watch. The people of the society fear the outside world, mainly because the government tells them lies to make them think its bad. The people are deprived of their human rights. The natural world is shunned away.
(http://facweb.northseattle.edu/jclapp/Children's%20Literature/Discussion%20Questions/Dystopias%20Characteristics.htm)

Dystopias are set in the future as a fictional society. The problem is that the society is in times of hardship and depression or oppression. A trait can be that the nation is over...

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...nt. This depiction is imaginary. Dystopian fiction uses feats from reality and talks about them but doesn’t depict contemporary societies in general. These stories take place in the future but are about the present and sometimes the past. These tales emphasize the sense of powerlessness of the individuals in the face of the government with much brutality that is run by a totalitarian dictatorship. (http://www.utopiaanddystopia.com/dystopia/distopian-elements-and-characteristic/)
Many different basic elements, characteristics, and themes are in the novel Allegiant to make it a dystopian novel. There are characteristics like how it is a spin off of a horrible futuristic world that has no freedom, and basically a robot type society. Dystopian elements, and themes are negative, and always about people surviving the horrible post war world they have been put in today.

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