Essays on Dystopia

Dystopian literature is often defined as a fictional genre that depicts the society to be unfair and setting. Dystopian literature has been around for a while now. Dystopian literature usually depicts the future of society, whether it’s the lives of the citizens or the overall…

Introduction Are there frequent reoccurrences of motifs and or themes found throughout dystopian literature that can be considered ‘classical dystopian’? To quote Mourby, “as long as human beings have been able to conceive of the future they seem to have been able to imagine things…

Technology has become integrated into nearly every aspect of our society, and many have come to wonder if that is a good thing or a bad thing. In the dystopian stories The Veldt, by Ray Bradbury, and Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan,…

Introduction In the Science fiction novel of the Parable of the Sower, author Octavia Butler narrates a disturbing dystopian future, failing government of the United States, set in 2020s, see from the eyes of Lauren a young African American and the Protagonist of the story….

In Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 science fiction, dystopian novel Station Eleven, a majority of the world is deceased due to the Georgia-flu pandemic spread unknowingly by a passenger on a flight from Russia to The United States causing an apocalyptic world. All technology and…

In the second half of Never Let Me Go, by Ishiguro Kazo, readers are able to see how Kathy changes as she grows up. For example, she becomes much more determined and sticks to what she says. She explains, “It wasn’t long after I made…

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was first published in 1945. Propaganda and the abuse of power are prevalent themes in the satirical novel, accentuated by the deliberate use of carefully selected language techniques. This essay will illustrate how a wide range of language techniques can…

The Hunger Games is a classic novel about a woman who defeats the superior community with leadership and courage. Some of the major themes in this movie were about society and class, power, identity, the reality, politics and competition, and human sacrifice. One of the…

Introduction What does the future look like? A question almost everyone has already asked themselves; well, 3 adjectives can define what humans already know: unpredictable, intimidating and frightening. The reason? Because it is presented as something farfetched in novels and movies making it appear as…

In the last chapter of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go miss Emily tells Kathy and Tommy “poor creatures, what did we do to you with all our schemes and plans?”. We can see that miss Emily uses a metaphor, she doesn’t refer to them…