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    Mariely Chavira Acosta

    ENGL 1102

    Professor Kimberly Purifoy

    27 January 2023

    “DYSTOPIALAND, THE NEW WORLD”

    Ever since Utopian literature existed, there has been this perception of the world as a

    better place. People loved to believe the idea that we could improve to the point of being a

    perfect society. Well…At least in books. But not much later, dystopian literature came and

    turned these ideas upside-down. It was a new world in which we noticed that “Utopians believe

    in progress; dystopians don’t. They fight this argument out in competing visions of the future,

    utopians offering promises, dystopians issuing warnings “(Lepore). They were like the new yin-

    yang, and this new type of literature called dystopian was about to be a successful one.

    People started to acknowledge more dystopian literature, but overall, this type of

    literature started being more noticeable in the young adults’ community, because it made this

    audience “think of interesting topics that seem realistic, yet fictional” (The Artifice).This not

    only helped young adults to see a different perspective of the world we live in, it also taught

    them advice in different areas of their life ”whether it is love, conflicts with the school, or other

    classmates”(The Artifice).This phenomenon became so popular ,that movies were made out of

    this dystopian books like “Hunger Games”, ”Divergent”, ”The Maze Runner”. They became

    famous for the simple reason that people related to it, this type of literature taught the reader that

    “it is okay to be different from everyone else because it brings out the beauty in people when you

    understand who they really are”(The Artifice).And even for young women this was a great twist,
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    like in hunger games where” The protagonist is pleased with who she is and this is symbolic to

    independent women”(The Artifice).this made young women feel more empowerment and less

    pressure to fit into society. Even though we are aware that dystopian literature has been

    beneficial to us at some point, because it made us think about the world from a whole different

    and more relatable perspective, there are still people out there who only see it as “a fiction of

    submission, the fiction of an untrusting, lonely, and sullen twenty-first century, the fiction of

    fake news and Infowars, the fiction of helplessness and hopelessness”(Lepore).


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    Works Cited.

    Lepore, Jill. “A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction.” The New Yorker, 2019,

    www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/a-golden-age-for-dystopian-fiction.

    Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

    “The Rising Popularity of Dystopian Literature | the Artifice.” The-Artifice.com, the Artifice, 20

    Apr. 2015, the-artifice.com/popularity-of-dystopian-literature/. Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.

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