LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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“Walking through carnivals, we love to laugh at the versions of ourselves that appear in the funhouse mirror.” (Paragraph 1)
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“The perfection that More, and other philosophers who wrote about utopias, imagined was never intended to be real.” (Paragraph 3)
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“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.” (Paragraph 6)
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“Women are forced to wear outfits that correspond to their class, and no one is given any choice. In some dystopias, the lack of choice is enforced by the government.” (Paragraph 11)
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -PART A: Which of the following identifies the author’s main claim in the text? Dystopian fiction exaggerates existing problems in our reality to show readers what could happen if society continues down a certain path.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is a DYSTOPIA? An imaginary futuristic world in which society lives under the oppression and control of a totalitarian government, a repressive society, a force of technology, or a corrupt business cooperation.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.