LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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A nuclear apocalypse rendering the world barely habitable
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Time travel destroying the fabric of the universe
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Economic inequality resulting in separate species of humans
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Characteristics of a Dystopian 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. Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The English philosopher John Stuart Mill coined ‘Dystopia’, meaning ‘bad place’, in 1868 as he was denouncing the government’s Irish land policy.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The interesting origins of dystopia ’Utopia’ owes its existence to Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), whose 1516 work Utopia introduced the word into English (though More’s book was actually written in Latin). Utopia is a pun, designed to put us in mind of the Greek u-topos (’no place’) and eu-topos (’good place’).