Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in 'a dark, nightmare world.' The term dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression and the theme is most commonly used in science fiction and speculative fiction genres.
1. Based on the picture, your prior knowledge, and a quick websearch, what is the difference between a utoptia and a dystopia? 2. What are some potentially negative elements about today's society that you can see taking a turn for the worse? What are the warning signs that are worth some paranoia? What things are happening that we should be concerned about that could destroy our future? 3. Paint the picture of our future society gone wrong. What specific challenges would people face in the future? What would this society look like? What fears, worries, and struggles would be the most fearsome? You can write this like a story or share your overall thoughts. Please write a 15-20 sentence response overall.
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Erick Velasco
6/4/2018 01:18:48 pm
The difference between is dystopia and utopia are completely different environment.Utopia looks all peacefully based on the picture.Dystopia looks dark and on fire, so guessing those are some differences.Based off the internet utopia is social conditions are perfect.Dystopia community or society which are undesirable or frightening.Some nevgative things about our society know is they tax us fat.A thing everyone afraid of is going into world war 3.Nukes and chemical missiles all countries making could destroy our world,races who’s more power making It worse .I believe setting down getting along with all countries work toghter instead of competing.In the future I belive there will be robots taking over everything since technology advancing quick .This society would look all futureristic like how it looks in movies .I feel like all humans would fear the robots taking over there own body taking over the world .
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Margarito Garcia
6/6/2018 08:47:33 am
When talking about a dystopia and a utopia there are many differences. In a utopia someone would love to live there. In the picture it shows just how peaceful a utopia can be. While in contrast a dystopia is a place with complete turmoil. As seen in the picture the place is on flames, dark and depressing. In my search it says a dystopia is a utopian society where things have gone wrong. Leading the current society to crumble. They are the two sides of the same coin. A negative element is having nuclear power. The limit on the power has gone down but it is still big problem. A problem that could be catastrophic. It could lead to the crumbling of our society and population. Every country today has at least one nuclear bomb at their disposal. In the future I see a more advanced society. Though they are more advanced they are more prone to make a mistake
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Briana Aguilar
2/12/2019 01:50:15 pm
Just by looking at the image provided I personally see a difference between the two in my head. Utopia to me seems more towards a realistic feature in a drawing. Perhaps even just meaning something real in general. On the other side Dystopia seems more of imagination or futuristic by looking at it. It could also mean something very meaningful or powerful. What it actually looks like when I looked them up is utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. As for dystopia is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice. Which now that I did some research that honestly describes todays society so well. Today’s society there are people who goes through a lot of bad things and people who don’t. Some of the people imagine things that they wish they could live which the majority would be utopia.
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Gene Fashbaugh
3/19/2020 05:42:42 pm
I see a difference in the two just by looking at yhe picture, utopia is more of the reality, or in a sense the normal, and living side of things where dystopia is more towards the negative, and part's that have fallen apartor what we imagine to happen in a negative stand point.
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