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Examples Of Degeneration Of Society In Uglies By Westerfeld

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“Degeneration of Society”
“This perfect society is coming to an end,” warns Shay, the protagonist, she says this because of the extent people would go to too become so said “perfect” (Westerfeld 268). Based on the ruination of friendship, unhappiness, and unhuman like features in Westerfeld’s books “Uglies” he accurately portrays the degeneration of society into a dystopia when they set out to create a utopia.
Utopia; an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect, well not in this case when creating the utopian society friends betray each other and it starts the ruination of friendships. In this book, “Uglies” each individual turn “pretty” with a full body operation, the first sign of the ruined friendship begins when Tally, a protagonist, sneaks off to Pretty Town to see her old friend Peris who already had the operation. “Come back and we can be friends again when you are pretty,” stated Peris. The second sign of the ruination of friendship includes betrayal. Tally betrays Shay for the operation to become “pretty”. “I turned her in because my mom said if I didn’t I wouldn’t get the operation” said Tally. The technology of this “utopia” has friends betraying and criticizing each other, this creates a very dystopic society. …show more content…

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