Paragraphs 5-6: What´s Dystopian Fiction?

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In paragraphs 5-6, the author includes a description of the 1990s in order for us to know the origin of dystopian fiction. The first paragraph, paragraph 5, focuses on the belief humanity had that a utopia could be created using the technological advances humanity had. However, as the article says, “no matter how much humanity progressed, perfection was never achieved. The promises of technoilogy and sociopolitical theory only resulted in war, poverty, famine, and chaos” (Ostergaard 5). Dystopian fiction is place around the belief that in the pursuit of perfection, a “‘bad place’” (Ostergaard 6) would be created. Most likely, dystopian fiction was created based on the fact that the more people tried to do towards perfection, the more the world