ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government.

Detailed explanation-2: -Technological control: Society is controlled by technology-through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Examples include The Matrix, The Terminator, and I, Robot.

Detailed explanation-3: -Types of Dystopian Controls Examples include Minority Report and Running Man. Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials.

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 fiction is often typified by physical and overt forms of control, such as Orwell’s projection of the future of “a boot stamping on a human face forever” in the classic novel 1984.