Essays on Dystopia

The present paper intends to first of all describe some of the iconoclastic attempts – rife in Indian ‘writing’ – that are made and mandated to dehumanise Islam and its followers, in order to qualify how Indian Muslims are marginalized. The paper begins with the...

“Utopia is an illusion. Dystopia is the reality” A utopia is a fictional society or state imitating a perfect simulation. The film, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir demonstrates how Truman’s definition of “perfection” contrasts from Christof’s perspective. The movie teaches viewers that one...

In the book, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card and the movie, there is a lot of violence and harassment. This violence seems to be brought on by older figures, like the adults. The forcefulness transfers from the adults over to the children, so...

In this world of ours, we tend to show a lot of concern and care for the people and things going on around us. Whether it be the pizza you ate at lunch or someone who is struggling in class, we show a lot of...

In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the audience is taken on an exciting adventure that explores the involvedness of Ender’s passage through the battle conservatory and the bugger conquests. From the start of his experience, Ender was being monitored and assessed by...

The concepts and proposition put forward by an author present to the audience relevant problems which might be embedded in today’s society. Sci-fi novels occasionally portray our world as a dystopian environment within the future, emphasizing problems of contemporary society. These novels allow authors to...

Dystopian texts analyse current significant societal concerns and imperfections and provide us with a warning to our possible bleak future. Orson Scott Card, in Ender’s Game reflects our anxieties about our increasingly divided world. Card has taken aspects of our reality and exaggerated them by...

The need for freedom to get through a harsh life is a necessity. Freedom is defined as the ability to act, speak, or think freely without any restraint or consequence. Many people have to escape from their current situation in order to achieve their perception...

It would be impossible to refer to all the utopian examples of work, but utopia began with the myth of Eden and the first thought refers back to Plato whose Republic is considered one of the first utopian works (Russell 2005). The idea of a...

Imagine, for a moment, living in a society where public information is strictly controlled, propaganda being your only source of knowledge, independent thought is frowned upon, and your freedoms are restricted as you are perceived to be under constant watch. Although written nearly two and...