LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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They show the results of society trying to create real utopias.
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They show the results of society trying to create real dystopias.
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They show the reader how to create utopias.
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They show the reader how inequality develops in utopias.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How does the description of the 1900s in paragraphs 5-6 help us understand the qualities of dystopian literature? They show the results of society trying to create real utopias.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of a Dystopian Society Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted/ censored. 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-4: -Dystopian authors argued that the pursuit of perfection will inevitably lead not to ‘no place’ but to a ‘bad place’, because of flaws within the system. And they made it their business to use fiction to hold up funhouse mirrors to magnify those flaws and force discussion about them.
Detailed explanation-5: -How does the author use the analogy of “funhouse mirrors” to help readers understand dystopian fiction? They use the term “funhouse mirrors” to help the readers understand dystopian fiction by telling the reader that when you look into a mirror, the version of yourself in the mirror shows you things about yourself.