LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Divergent
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A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation
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Brave New World
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The Giver
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Detailed explanation-1: -People in the know say “The Giver” was the first young adult dystopian novel.
Detailed explanation-2: -A modern literary genre, the dystopia, was invented by Yevgeny Zamyatin in his novel My (1924; We), which could be published only abroad. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, which are modeled on it, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to…
Detailed explanation-3: -Before Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One”, George Orwell’s “Ninteen Eighty-Four” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, there was Yevgeni Zamyatin’s “We”, the first dystopian novel ever written.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ray Bradbury is known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953. Regarded as one of his best works, Fahrenheit 451 presents a future American society where books are outlawed, and ‘firemen’ burn any that are found.