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Contrary to the technologically utopian claims, which view technology as a beneficial addition to all aspects of humanity, technological dystopia concerns itself with and focuses largely (but not always) on the negative effects caused by new technology. [55] Technologies reflect and encourage the worst aspects of human nature. [55]
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is also sometimes linked with both utopian and dystopian literatures, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of good and bad societies. Of the countries Lemuel Gulliver visits, Brobdingnag and Country of the Houyhnhnms approach a utopia; the others have significant dystopian aspects. [19]
Dystopian societies appear in many fictional works and artistic representations, particularly in stories set in the future. Famous examples include George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World (1932), and Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
Laws (360 BC) by Plato [4] The Republic (ca. 300 BC) by Zeno of Citium, an ideal society based on the principles of Stoicism. Sacred History (ca. 300 BC) by Euhemerus – Describes the rational island paradise of Panchaea [5] Islands of the Sun (ca. 165–50 BC) by Iambulus – Utopian novel describing the features and inhabitants of the title ...
The first part, called "1984", is a series of essays and interviews (Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee) discussing aspects of Orwell's book. The basic idea of dystopia is explicated, and term "kakotopia" is also brought up and explored etymologically.
Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry . It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by its subject matter, rather than by the poetry's form.
Dystopian literature, involving the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.