ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. Citizens have a fear of the outside world. Citizens live in a dehumanized state. The natural world is banished and distrusted.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dehumanization is the act of stripping a human being, a person, of their individualism and their ability to become his or her authentic self. In the novel “A Brave New World”, written by Aldous Huxley, the tale of a “perfect utopia” is told.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dystopia is the opposite of utopia: a state in which the conditions of human life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror (or all three). A dystopian society is characterized by human misery in the form of squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war.

Detailed explanation-4: -In dystopias, citizens may live in a dehumanized state, be under constant surveillance, or have a fear of the outside world. In the film What Happened to Monday the protagonists risk their lives by taking turns onto the outside world because of a one-child policy place in this futuristic dystopian society.

Detailed explanation-5: -Example 1. George Orwell’s 1984 is the classic statist dystopia. In this imagined future, the government has abolished individual freedom and identity, and dedicated themselves to a hateful ideology of violence and domination.