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- Utopia is a literary genre that portrays an ideal society or an ideal existence, perhaps an ideal that could not possibly be realized. Dystopia is a literary genre that is the opposite of utopia. Dystopia often depicts a nightmarish existence or an inhuman future society.
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A dystopia and utopia are intended to be nearly opposite ideas. It's a little strange to combine them on one list. (I understand the appeal of a "dystopian utopia"... but the two genres are still different).
Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.
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- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Buy on Amazon. While it was published in 1949, this famous work is predictably set in 1984. Orwell’s world foresees only three continental-sized nations, at least one of which is overseen by an ubiquitous, watchful government.
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Buy on Amazon. Set in a world that many of us avid readers would find nightmarish, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is the story of Guy Montag, a “fireman” who is becoming disillusioned with his job — to put it simply, he’s assigned to set fire to books, rather than put fires out.
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Buy on Amazon. In this once-futuristic world — the book was published in 1985 about the near future — America is taken over by a religious sect, and the order of the country is pushed back several centuries.
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Buy on Amazon. In contrast to the well-crafted orders we’ve encountered thus far, The Road transports us to a universe shattered by an unnamed catastrophe.
Mar 15, 2017 · Utopian literature has a long history, so in the following top ten selection we’ve tried to pick a representative sample of what the genre has to offer. Here are ten of the best utopian novels, romances, and philosophical treatise (utopian fiction loves to blur the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, essay and story).
Mar 22, 2023 · Key differences between utopias and dystopias. To summarize, here are the key differences between utopias and dystopias: Authorial intent: Writers of utopias intend to depict a society that appears better than the one we live in now, while writers of dystopia aim to imagine worlds that are worse.
Aug 6, 2013 · Chan Koonchung discusses the differences, and similarities, between the utopia and the dystopia – a Five Books interview.
