Dystopia, A weapon that only Hope can make effective.

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Dystopia, A weapon that only Hope can make effective

Dystopia can be found in many artistic areas Dystopia LiteratureCinemaComicsMusic Dystopia

Let's put all this into a context… Science-Fiction UchroniaDystopiaUtopia

Distopia ≠ Utopia Uchronia or Alternate History

Dystopia’s main features - Foresight - Citicism (political, economic and social, scientific and technological systems) - Denunciation / Warning

Hope, an essential element -Heart of the communicative power of dystopian works -Motor of the human actions -Hauling element of mankind -Remedy against fear

“2 + 2 =” Pure coincidence or sign of the unconscious inherent hope of mankind?

Sources of the images: -E. Drooker, Censorship, Drawings, -G. Klimt, Hope I (Die Hoffnung I), Children of Men, A. Cuarón, United Kingdom, Nineteen Eighty-Four, M. Radford, United Kingdom, G. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Modern Classics, United Kingdom, Idiocracy, M. Judge, USA, P. Dick, La svastica sul sole, Editrice Nord, Milano, 1993 Created by: Anna Anastasopoulos