LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Utopia stands for one imperfect place and dystopia stands for many imperfect places
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Utopia stands for places that have really existed, while dystopia stands for imaginative places
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Utopia stands for imaginative places that are perfect while dystopian stands for imaginative placesthat are horrible
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None of these answers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Depending on the Greek roots used, utopia can either mean no place or good place. A dystopia, on the other hand, is a world in which nothing is perfect. The problems that plague our world are often even more extreme in dystopias.
Detailed explanation-2: -Utopian fiction is set in a perfect world-an improved version of real life. Dystopian fiction does the opposite. A dystopian novel drops its main character into a world where everything seems to have gone wrong at a macro level.
Detailed explanation-3: -He coined the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ou-topos meaning ‘no place’ or ‘nowhere’. It was a pun-the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means ‘a good place’. So at the very heart of the word is a vital question: can a perfect world ever be realised?
Detailed explanation-4: -Inside every utopia is a dystopia striving to get out. World-changing plans to bring all human life and activity under beneficent control devolve inevitably into regimentation and compulsion. Edenic life-affirming communes descend into chaos and waste.