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In a dystopian society, one is not limited to the sum of displeasure and lies that might transpire. The lines between dystopian and anti-utopian societies are similar in contrast, but offer a wide array of absent pleasure for the citizens of the totalarianistic state. Brave New World, a brainwashed utopia, written by Aldous Huxley, introduced…

Imagine competing against the best high schoolers in the nation to prove you are a leader. With DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America), you get the opportunity to do just that. DECA is not just about competition, however. They are a strong community who use language to meet their goals. Therefore, it is easy to…

Dystopia is a bleak way of writing about our possible future. Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a cultural forewarning of our actions. Gilead, being a religious based government, controls their followers with fear which makes the government even more powerful. When someone believes that they are being watched by their God, they are on their…

In A Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood creates a ‘Ustopia’, otherwise known as the Republic of Gilead. In Gilead, the citizens are ruled over by a totalitarian government that subjects its women to oppression as it enforces laws that limit their freedom and prohibit any form of pleasure; all of which is justified by the…

Policing in America was first discovered by the British colonists who fled their homeland because they wanted religious freedom. In the 1600s and 1700s the colonists founded their four primary policing entities: constables, watches, slave patrol, and sheriffs. Although during that time there was very little need for law enforcement, the colonist still found it…

The scariest thing about reading dystopias is how well some of them have predicted the future. Some aspects of the books seem like a stretch until you read the books themselves. The way some authors have predicted how technology will ruin society is very similar to how today is. When you are in society and…

Chang-Rae Lee’s novel, “On Such A Full Sea”, explores social trends in a dystopian future America. Utilizing a first-person plural narrator, Lee documents the journey of the teenaged protagonist: Fan. Lee uses this fantasy world as a medium for the expression of concerns about the state of affairs in the modern world. As a result,…

The film Wall-E is a well developed story which grabs a wide variety of different audiences attention while providing humorest entertainment. As the story develops the main character’s purpose shows in addition to his reason for being on Earth. Due to the bad environment that was caused from the humans, leaving Wall-E behind to clean…

In the depths of a hypothetical world, a futuristic society achieves perfection through “sameness”. In this social system, sameness is reflected in the human’s lack of choice and freedom. By eliminating differences among mankind, sameness upholds social structure, keeps order, and emphasizes the ideals of equality over individuality. This world is portrayed in Lois Lowry’s…

There are meetings in life that change the point of view of someone without realizing it. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, people live in a dystopia where books are not allowed. However, it doesn’t stop everyone from reading. Montag, the protagonist, for a living, burns the books of the people who read them or…