Dystopian, unlike its opposite term ‘utopian’ is a term here which describes the future. However, a dystopian future would be one that is dehumanising or unpleasant. Common themes of dystopia would be government control, technology or environmental damage. Take Ernest cline’s novel ‘ready player one’ for instance, It is a dangerous world where many people suffer and live in misery and fear. The only thing keeping them sane is a interactive video game. This type of future presents fear. A future where no one wants to live there.
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Dystopian fiction presents the power of fear very realistically and dystopian or utopian fiction could be used to manipulate readers by scaring them off with the possibility of what could happen (bad). Dystopian fiction presents a future where many people suffer and live in misery because of something taken to the extreme. Dystopian or utopian fiction, therefore, manipulates the reader to not do what caused the misery in the story. Dystopian fiction exaggerates existing problems in our reality to show readers what could happen if society continues down a certain path. Both utopian and dystopian fiction is used to warn readers about the risks of attempting to alter society in any way. “Dystopian authors argued that the pursuit of perfection will inevitably lead not to ‘no place’ but to a ‘bad place’, because of flaws within the system” (Ostergaard, Commonlit). So this kind of future is a fear for the people and it is a dangerous world. It is a kind of future where no one wants to live in.
