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Detailed explanation-1: -Even though the Capitol on its own forms a utopia, the dystopian aspects all over the rest of Panem outweigh the utopian aspects. Because of that you can say that the novel “The Hunger Games“ by Suzanne Collins is a typical dystopian novel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Those elements are: inequality, oppression, the abuse of advanced technology (especially throughout the reality show), the pessimistic outlook on life, the control of information, the loss of free will and identity, scapegoating, distraction, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brave New World (1932)-Aldous Huxley. Fahrenheit 451 (1953)-Ray Bradbury. Lord of the Flies (1954)-William Golding. A Clockwork Orange (1962)-Anthony Burgess.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hunger Games is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia called Panem. A dystopia is an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state.