What Is The Dystopia In The Road

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PART TWO: ESSAY

Dystopia is an imaginary place whereof which the condition of life is in a extremely bad form, from natural or man mad disaster. dystopian text show the way our future would look like and feel like throughout the perspective of the author. The authors perspective may be influenced by the actions of the humans on earth. both “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy and “Karma police” by Radiohead show a detailed view of the authors thoughts to future. Radiohead shows it in an government dystopia in the lyrics of “Karma Police,” while Cormack McCarthy shows a post-apocalyptic dystopia in his text the road.

Cormack McCarthy creates a post apocalyptic dystopian future in his text “The road.” the example he used in the text was “Are we going to die? Sometime not now.” the effect of this is to show the authors thoughts to the future. the end is always close. they will end up dieing close and shows the authors perspective is people will be questioning there death. this represents Cormack perspective of the future.

Cormack McCarthy creates a post apocalyptic dystopian setting o...

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