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    If someone in our society enforces a strict school uniform are they really any better than the leaders of the dystopian society we read about in novels? Is the president of the school district any different than the president in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut? Both believe they are creating an equal environment that will have a positive impact. The fact is though that none of these dystopian societies last very long and if they do‚ they are not very efficient

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    Fahrenheit 451 is an example of a dystopian society. A dystopian society is futuristic illusion of a perfect society that is controlled by the government. At many occasions in the book it proves that it is a dystopian society that Montag lives in because of the context it consists of. Characteristics such as‚ Freedom‚ information‚ and personal thought is prohibitted‚ individual personality lost and looked down upon‚ and propaganda used to control the citizens‚ is present in the text of the book.

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    “They wouldn’t want to show this so people would see how bad it is in the other districts” (Collins 283). Here Katniss hints to the separation of the people‚ which is a common theme of the dystopian societies. In all of the books the people are set far apart. That is mostly so people can not see how bad or how better it is in other places and revolt. For example in In Time people found out the “time” pay is better in other towns‚ and that people live longer. Then a bunch of people would revolt against

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    Dystopian Societies Human vegetables‚ all controlled by the eights of their technology‚ all unaware of the real problems around them; a dystopian society. Farhenheit 451 and The Island‚ two stories that share this wretched theme. But both stories each have a character that questions it all. They both go against what others say. They followed what their hearts had to say‚ and thought for themselves. With no literature for Guy Montag in Farhenheit 451 and the longing for freedom for Lincoln 6-Eco

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    was a society where people didn’t have freedom and rights or if they tried to hide their feelings and pretend everything is positive? Is our society close to that now or is our society much different from that description? In the novel Fahrenheit 451‚ the citizens don’t have rights we have today. The people try to hide their feelings and only care about themselves. This describes our society a little because people are still fighting for rights and there is crime wherever you go. The dystopian society

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    A dystopian society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. In the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society under corporate control. Which means that the government controls many of the citizens’ decisions. In this novel the protagonist‚ Jonas gets chosen to become the record of memory. So he will get all the history of the world. He starts to realize that his community is not what it said to be. He didn’t like that fact that he has been lied to for his whole 12 years of living‚

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    Utopian and Dystopian ideas are popular because a utopian society is an ideal world‚ or a fantasy image‚ while a dystopian world is the reality of being a millennial. Utopian stories have become progressively popular because of the widespread ideas of perfection and the ‘perfect image.’ In stories like “The Giver”‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ and “Divergent” it illustrates the ideas of society and how conforming people are to the idea of the idea of ‘equality.’ The non-conformists are looked as antagonists

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    In a distant society‚ there was a young‚ handsome boy named Equality 7-2521. Equality had everything‚ he was very handsome and was high above the average in his intelligence‚ the society Equality lived in though‚ did not accept that. The society promoted absolute equality to the extent of banning the word “I” and replacing it with “we”. The society deemed Equality’s advantages a curse “We were born with a curse. It has always driven us to thoughts which are forbidden. It has always given us wishes

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    choice and that they are in total control of their lives‚ the dystopian society in ‘Fahrenheit 451‘ resembles the present day world because people have stopped questioning the government mainly due the fact that they have stopped reading which makes them ignorant and their lack of knowledge and their inability to think makes the government’s job easier to control and manipulate them through fear . Another reason why the society in ‘Fahrenheit 451’ resembles the current world is the excessive

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    Quick Write #1: Dystopia/Utopia 1.No‚ because a utopian society expects too much from everyone in the society. Plus‚ if someone in the society feels different or wants to rebel against the society’s unity‚ there could be a fracture in the perfection. People are meant to be special and different‚ not forced into sameness and conforming to society. There was a study performed on Brain Games‚ a Television show on National Geographic Channel‚ where there was a line of 10 people long and the first nine

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