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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Dystopian

Unlike utopian, which refers to something based on an a concept of idealized perfection (utopia literally means no place), dystopia refers to a society where everything has gone dreadfully wrong. There is a whole sub-genre of sci-fi dystopian literature, including novels like:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthonly Burgess
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Vice and Virtue in the Middle Time by Sven Åge Madsen
The Giver by Lois Lowry
1984 by George Orwell

And also, I can't help but mention Terry Gilliam's incredible film about a future bureaucratic society based on a Tom Stoppard screenplay, Brazil from 1985. Check out this clip, or better yet, get the movie.



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