LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Citizens are under constant surveillance.
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Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
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The natural world is banished.
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A figurehead or concept is worshiped.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. Citizens have a fear of the outside world. Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
Detailed explanation-2: -Common elements of dystopian fiction include societies engaged in forever wars, and characterized by extreme social and economic class divides, mass poverty, environmental devastation, anarchy, and loss of individuality.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.