LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Forces us to look back in history.
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Takes problems we already see in our society and casts them into the future, when they have become way worse.
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Paints a highly realistic portrait of our current situation.
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Is complete fantasy with no connection to reality.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dystopias, Atwood says, show us the future if we do not correct the mistakes of the present, and so writers of dystopian fiction aid democracies by showing the consequences of inaction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Part of the appeal of these classics, of course, is a morbid strain of escapism: Dystopian fiction enables readers to taste a darker timeline, albeit one that a protagonist invariably triumphs over. The world could be a lot worse, you think while reading. But the thrill goes beyond the vicarious.
Detailed explanation-3: -Author Margaret Atwood has imagined a future society that imprisons law-abiding citizens ("The Heart Goes Last"), a post-apocalyptic world filled with genetically modified creatures ("Oryx and Crake") and, most famously, a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the privileged ("The Handmaid’s Tale").
Detailed explanation-4: -Science fiction, usually we think of other galaxies, other planets, other sorts of things entirely. And I write speculative fiction not because I don’t like the other kind, but because I can’t write it. It’s not within my skill set.