In the world of literature, there are books that depict a utopian world and then there are other books that depict a dystopian world. A utopia is a place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions. Whereas a dystopia a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Literature that is considered to have a dystopian world explains a current trend, societal norm, or political system through an exaggerated worst-case scenario. The examples of dystopias that are going to be explained throughout this essay is Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games. In both of these literary works, the authors explain a concept that is worshipped by the citizens of the society. In Fahrenheit 451, the people’s knowledge is limited because the government made it a law that they could not read certain books because the had substance. It turned out that there is more books that are banned compared to the amount of books that are not banned. Before the 74th Hunger Games, the government created districts to help …show more content…
The three examples listed above are only a few characteristics that characterizes what a dystopia is, but there are many others. For example, the society seems to be an illusion of a perfect world, the natural world is banished and mistrusted, and the citizens are in constant fear of the outside world. As well as, the citizens having to conform to uniform expressions, being perceived to be under constant surveillance, and being controlled by the propaganda that is being spread. Dystopias really do seem to just be an illusion of a perfect society, but in reality is just a harsh world that we would never think of living