Definition
of Dystopia: a futuristic timeline where a society is oppressed of free
thinking and were brainwashed into thinking their society is perfect. These
control over the people are by technological, moral, militaristic and
totalitarian control. Often caused by dehumanization, totalitarian government,
environmental disaster, raging diseases, or apocalyptic effects of a society. The
exaggerated fictional version of the future gone wrong. The complete opposite
of a utopia
Definition
of a utopia: The perfect society that is extinct of war, diseases, tragic
disasters, violence, and negative emotions. The exaggerated form a society in perfect
harmony. The complete opposite of dystopia.
If
you ask someone to choose a society to live in majority of the time their
answer would describe a utopian society. The ideal place where everyone can
live in harmony. But yet inside many humans fantasize about dystopian empire of
the most unimaginable horrors in our minds. The utopian society seems utterly
great idea so why do we indulge ourselves with the idea of oppressed society. I
don’t know how to answer such a question all I know is that dystopian novels
are incredible reads and I have some trilogies to recommend to anyone who
enjoys a good dystopian novel or would like to read one.
First
of I would like to recommend is the hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Which many of should know has recently come out the second book as a sequel
movie catching fire based on the book.
Katniss lives in a world where she
lives in a district among 12 in the past of these timeline the district rebels
their government. To which the government put down the rebellion and to control
these district and never have another uprising they created the hunger games to
control the districts. These hunger games require that each district offer two
tributes, a boy and a girl ages 12 to adulthood. Katniss’s adventure starts
with her sister chosen as tribute and Katniss volunteers taking her place. She
then has to survive the cruel and dangerous hunger games and from there her
journey begins.
- Hunger Games
- Catching Fire
- Mocking Jay
The
second dystopian trilogy I recommend is the divergent series by Veronica Roth. It’s
another one that has been recently turned into a movie.
Beatrice
“Tris” lives in a world that is split into 5 factions and the factions are Abnegation,
Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, and Candor. Tris lives in the Abnegation Faction that
is dedicated to selflessness, but she feels that she doesn’t belong there so
when it came to the time of the aptitude test of which faction she is more
fitted in. She finds out she is destined for more than one faction because of
the ability she has that enables her to manipulate the simulations of the test
which is called divergence. But she chooses the Dauntless where the brave dare
to go. There she will find how dangerous it is to be divergent.
- Divergent
- Insurgent
- Allegiant
The
last dystopian trilogy I offer is The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
and this haven’t been made into a movie that I know of.
The
story starts off with Mary a girl from a small town that is surrounded by a
vast forest. In her small town the sisterhood is the supreme authority and they
have a common belief among them and the townsfolk. That they are the only humans
left in this world and that everyone else have died and became the
unconsecrated, who claws and moans by gates of town yearning to infect the
humans that are inside. Mary who has recently lost her mother to the unconsecrated
begins to distrust the sisterhood and yearns to see beyond the forest of hands
and teeth and into the unknown world.
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- The Dead Tossed Waves
- The Dark and Hollow places
