Dystopian

In the events focused on a village that conducts what several would consider a dehumanizing and cruel annual tradition amongst each other. On what transpires during this tradition is that it involves drawing papers for every family member in their household to settle on who wins the lottery each year. Moreover, the drawing is random…

Why is it still a popular genre for young adult books? According to Jennifer Kendall, “A dystopia is a society that is broken down, unpleasant, or in an oppressed or terrorized state. Unlike a utopia, a perfect world, dystopias are grim, dark, and hopeless. They reveal society’s greatest fears.” Dystopian literature is a “genre of…

Have you ever heard someone call a group of people, “sheep” or say that someone is “woke”? They are usually referring to those who are or are not being seduced and deceived by propaganda. Those who have for some reason or another been able to dissent and question the socially accepted norms. Written in 1931,…

Modern society is as close to a dystopian lifestyle as it ever has been these past few years. With technology overtaking the world and a plateful of questionable acts from different governments, it is not hard to envision the world through the eyes of the new and old dystopian novel characters that we have today….

Have you ever imagined living in a society in which everything seems to be perfect but in reality it’s not? Some people imagine a world full of violence, consequences, and lack of freedom in which it’s a perfect illusion of a perfect society. However, for many years now many people from different countries have imagined…

The Purge films are a series of films based on a government that allows its citizens to “purge” once a year from sunset to sunrise. In this film To purge means to get rid of something or someone from society and the population overall through a violent manor. The government legalizes all crimes for twelve…

Imagine a world where religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, social status, race, and everything in between are out of your control; a world where showing individuality gets you slaughtered. The short-animated film “‘Being Pretty’”: Dystopian Animated Short Film (2017)” was created by David James Armsby and published on his personal YouTube channel Dead Sound. As…

We are in the year 2021. Kanye West has just been elected the new President of The United States in 2020 and is quickly ruining the nation. America is now a dictatorship. This is not the same America we have been used to living in, and if nothing is done soon there will be no…

The use of psychoanalytic theory and destruction can act as a lens with which to dissect a work of literature. Psychoanalysis can help to determine how a character in a novel is affected by their unconscious. Using Freudian theory as a launching point in which to determine the effect of coercion managed effectively through the…