Analysis Of Ally Condie's Matched
Ally Condie’s Matched: A portrayal of a totalitarian society
Anyone reading Ally Condie’s Matched in this time and age has probably noticed the patterns of dystopian love fiction many times: the love triangle, the teenage girl protagonist, the clichés, and a villain who is powerful and controls the society. There is a constantly growing book pile of dystopian literature yet new ones are still made. Condie merges the reader and the characters and grounds us in a strange world where the Society holds all the power and rules as a totalitarian government.
In Matched the superiors decide everything and have full control about what happens in the towns, or so they think. If you get enough infractions, you will be sent away, no one will want to remember you or even help you. The city is tightly monitored by the Society and its Officials, at seventeen you will get matched to someone of the other gender who you will marry in the future and you two will continue …show more content…
This book series also contains a female teenage protagonist and her life is also changed by an event but this one is a ceremony which the government hosts for games and not for your future partner. This event brings a journey consisting of loss and rebellion. In The Hunger Games, you can see that the totalitarian government handles its citizens poorly and inhumanely, more so in Katniss’ District. In Matched, the citizens believe in the illusion of utopia and this creates more faith in the government and its strict rules, but in The Hunger Games they do not and this is a big difference in the stories. The heavy presence of the government’s regulations and rules are linked with the concept of security and protection. In Collins however, the government is themed with apathy and the notion that you will either be isolated or abandoned if you don’t
Anyone reading Ally Condie’s Matched in this time and age has probably noticed the patterns of dystopian love fiction many times: the love triangle, the teenage girl protagonist, the clichés, and a villain who is powerful and controls the society. There is a constantly growing book pile of dystopian literature yet new ones are still made. Condie merges the reader and the characters and grounds us in a strange world where the Society holds all the power and rules as a totalitarian government.
In Matched the superiors decide everything and have full control about what happens in the towns, or so they think. If you get enough infractions, you will be sent away, no one will want to remember you or even help you. The city is tightly monitored by the Society and its Officials, at seventeen you will get matched to someone of the other gender who you will marry in the future and you two will continue …show more content…
This book series also contains a female teenage protagonist and her life is also changed by an event but this one is a ceremony which the government hosts for games and not for your future partner. This event brings a journey consisting of loss and rebellion. In The Hunger Games, you can see that the totalitarian government handles its citizens poorly and inhumanely, more so in Katniss’ District. In Matched, the citizens believe in the illusion of utopia and this creates more faith in the government and its strict rules, but in The Hunger Games they do not and this is a big difference in the stories. The heavy presence of the government’s regulations and rules are linked with the concept of security and protection. In Collins however, the government is themed with apathy and the notion that you will either be isolated or abandoned if you don’t