ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. Citizens have a fear of the outside world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Individual freedom of thought and action are severely restricted or nonexistent; uniformity and conformity are demanded, and individualism is oppressed. Individual humans are dehumanized and reduced to mere resources to be exploited, mere cogs in the great machine of the dystopian society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Individualism is the enemy to the current state of the society. Individualism is always the enemy to required conformity. The stripping of individuality is a key characteristic of a dystopian society.

Detailed explanation-4: -relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such a society: She mentioned Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale, ” in which fertile young women are enslaved as reproductive servants.