ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dystopia is the opposite of utopia: a state in which the conditions of human life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror (or all three). A dystopian society is characterized by human misery in the form of squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war.

Detailed explanation-2: -For the dystopians, the belief that human nature is knowable leaves people open to manipulation. Knowledge gives a great degree of power to the people in power. Second, dystopians show that human beings are not only adaptable but also recalcitrant.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -That is why in dystopian literature, fear is a powerful tool to drive the main characters to take action which moves the story along or in other cases prevents them from taking important action.