ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society. Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted/ censored. A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Technological control: Society is controlled by technology-through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some literary devices that most authors use in dystopian literature are irony, foreshadowing, and the use of anti-hero as the protagonist.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Dystopian literature explores the major flaws of humanity, as well as the extent to which society could descend into chaos while simultaneously believing it is creating a better world. This thesis did not argue that within the studied works are all the same dystopian characteristics.