LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in ‘a dark, nightmare world
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It means a good world with no flaws
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it originated it in greece meaning “good” and “fun”
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The roots of the word dystopia, dys and topia are from the Ancient Greek word for ‘bad” and “place”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English philosopher John Stuart Mill coined ‘Dystopia’, meaning ‘bad place’, in 1868 as he was denouncing the government’s Irish land policy. He was inspired by More’s writing on utopia.
Detailed explanation-2: -A modern literary genre, the dystopia, was invented by Yevgeny Zamyatin in his novel My (1924; We), which could be published only abroad. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, which are modeled on it, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to…
Detailed explanation-3: -dystopia. noun. dys·to·pia. (ˌ)dis-ˈtō-pē-ə : an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly.
Detailed explanation-4: -The history of dystopian literature can be traced back to the reaction to the French Revolution of 1789 and the prospect that mob rule would produce dictatorship. Until the late 20th century, it was usually anti-collectivist. Dystopian fiction emerged as a response to the utopian.