ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dystopia is not a real place; it is a warning, usually about something bad the government is doing or something good it is failing to do. Actual dystopias are fictional, but real-life governments can be “dystopian” – as in, looking a lot like the fiction.

Detailed explanation-2: -dystopian Add to list Share. “Utopian” describes a society that’s conceived to be perfect. Dystopian is the exact opposite-it describes an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s also because readers know that, despite the speculative framing, these books are telling the truth. Dystopia is realism, at least when it is done well. It depicts the world as it really is, through the refractive prism of extreme metaphor. It’s a realism that uses mirrors, sometimes fun-house mirrors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Common elements of dystopian fiction include societies engaged in forever wars, and characterized by extreme social and economic class divides, mass poverty, environmental devastation, anarchy, and loss of individuality.