1. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Utopian Society: A community that tries to create a perfect political, spiritual community; -essentials such as clothing, housing, food, agriculture, etc. are generally included.

2. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Utopian Society: They are very hard to realize because they try to remove violence and natural things that humans do. -Strive to make everything the same; no change, no difference, all alike to avoid conflict.

3. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Dystopian Society: the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian. Examples – Brave New World and 1984.

4. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Dystopian Society: Tend to feature different kinds of repressive social control systems; various forms of active and passive coercion.

5. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Dystopian Society: Texts often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope, with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity’s spiritual evolution.

6. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature -Dystopian Society: Often imagined as police states, with unlimited power over the citizens.

7. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature Characteristics -Back Stories: a) Some sort of disaster, war, revolution, or uprising is introduced as the background to the story b) This means a shift in government --- to totalitarian dictatorship usually with new social norms. c) Takes place in the future and have more advanced technology.

8. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature Characteristics -Hero/Protagonist: a) Usually a prot. who questions society, knowing something is very wrong. b) Hero believes that escape or overturning the social order is possible c) May attempt to change the system or even bring it down

9. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature Characteristics -Conflict -There is usually a group of people somewhere in the society who are not under the complete control of the state, and in whom the hero of the novel usually puts his or her hope, although often he or she still fails to change anything

10. Mr. Martinez Academic English 3 Dystopian Literature Characteristics -Climax/denouement a) The story is often (but not always) unresolved even if the hero manages to escape or destroy the dystopian. b) Ultimately fail to change anything. Sometimes they themselves end up changed to conform to the society’s norms.