Essays on Dystopia

The dictionary defines a dystopia as “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. ” However, many futuristic novels and movies present a dystopian society as one that lives effortlessly, showing that the...

Utopianism has slowly made its way into a literary genre by authors comparable to Thomas More. More’s book, Utopia was written to show his disdain about the political corruption that happened in Europe during his life. Comparing the word “Utopia” to both a good place...

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...

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...

What is an utopia? And a dystopia? The complexity of these two intertwined topics is enormous but it also is difficult the future questions they can lead us to. This abstract will give a brief and not clearly defined explanation about them and how they...