Examples+In+Literature

=There are many examples of dystopia seen throughout literature= =//1984// by George Orwell= "People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." (Orwell 1)

This novel, which was published in 1949, is a **dystopian** novel about the totalitarian regime of the Party. The novel takes place in a province which is constantly flooded with perpetual war. The government has complete control over the people, establishing mind control of society and constantly surveilling the population. Mistakes or infractions results in severe punishments in this province. Orwell uses this book to show the downfall of a perfect utopian society. The society was created to be perfect, by protecting the citizens by controlling the mind and fighting the war. This society becomes a dystopia. Orwell's use of dystopia in his novel gives a fealing of failure and fright to his audience. The distopian society is a model of what **not** to be accomplished by a government or organization.

=//Animal Farm// by George Orwell= "All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings." (Orwell 6)

=//Farenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury= The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.' Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.(Bradbury 86)
 * //Animal Farm//** is a dystopian novel in the form of an allegory by George Orwell. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. The short story is characterized by a hoard of animals over ruling a human farm and running a totalitarian government throughout the farm. Many ideas which were present during Stalin's era, such as Marksism and communism, are present in the novel. Stalin's private security force, the KGB, are represented as an agressive pack of dogs in the book. This book reflects a dystopia because the farm, which was created to provide freedom to all animals, has become a corrupt power scheme. This novel characterizes a dystopia uniformely.

The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The 'firefighters' in the town are not employed to put out fires, but to start them. Their job is to burn any books or literature which is found. In this society, literature is outlawed because it informs the people, which gives power to the people and the government does not agree with this. Humans are left in the dark, and if you are caught with a book, you are sent away. The society was created to stop revolution in society. Without literature, imagination, and mental growth, society is powerless. This is what the government is trying to achieve. Literature strikes fear in the minds of the government because it wants to oppress the society. This novel represents a dystopia because the civilians realize that no literature is not the answer, but the problem. Eventually, all comes crashing down and the town is eventually ruined, just to burn the books.