LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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The citizens don’t know, they are just afraid of what might happen if they are caught doing something bad or illegal
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The people in charge follow the important citizens around and watch everything they do, even going to bed in their rooms
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The citizens think they are under constant surveillance by spies, cameras, or other means
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The citizens hear voices in their heads telling them that they are being watched
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Characteristics of a Dystopian Society 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-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.