It is much more stimulating and causes feelings and thoughts than many other genres that dictate mass media today. Interesting piece. You mentioned more than once that the dystopian worlds not only threaten the livelihood of the protagonists, but prevent them from exercising personal freedom and individuality.
So if we can accept that this is an important part of dystopian literature, we can understand why young adults are intrigued by this genre. Adolescence functions as the period of time where the individual self comes into formation out of growth, pain, and learning. Young persons are often searching for and constructing a personal identity based off of subjective experiences and desires, but an identity that can survive and thrive within sociocultural boundaries and expectations.
I recently took on a new role as a Social Studies teacher, and my L. Is it just me, or are all the book and movies too similar? In any case, I am glad to see we can teach the same themes via books that speak more prominently to our teens.
Additionally, many of these books can be used to help teach concepts around ideologies in Grade 12 Social Studies! Such dystopian novels are fascinating since they bring to us a terrible version of our society which teens, I think, are thinking impossible. It is interesting to see what our own lives would be like if set under such extreme and tyrannical settings.
You make very good points, but I wish you would have drew more off other dystonpian novels. Brave New World is a very good one too. The older dystopians are much more realistic in my opinion. While it feels like a long shot, some feel like they can see it happen more than stories like Divergent and The Hunger Games. The left wants to use as a playbook rather than the cautionary tale it was written to be.
We have an honest to gosh Socialist Party member being paraded as an honest to goodness viable candidate for the Presidency and our President announced that there is little difference between Socialism, Communism and Capitalism. I am currently doing my thesis on a similar topic and find your thoughts very interesting. The idea that these texts are allegorical for high school does explain why young adults are enjoying them so much. It is nice to see modern literature re-imaging real life problems in such a creative way.
I think any sort of novel on the outcomes of humankind in the future fascinates us because it is a way to acknowledge the many issues that remain unsolved and that plague us.
It is interesting to read about how life could alternatively be. We feel these things about our governing body, and the fear to do so exists, these books are the only outlet to agreeing and feeling what that might be like. Hey me and my class are seminaring about this, can whoever wrote this reply back to this so I can ask them about this. Dystopian worlds or societies are more fantasy than reality. Each trilogy has a character that has a lot of obstacles to overcome, not just physically but mentally as well.
They have to make unique decisions that typically conflict their societies leaders, an example of individual freedom rather than conforming to society pressures. Even though these novels may be solely based on fantasy, the issues of peer pressure from society are very real; yet another reason why young adults can relate to the fictional characters present in the dystopian world.
No matter the setting, YA characters tend to develop emotionally as we the readers turn the page, an emotional journey to find themselves. I thoroughly agree with this interpretation…. That being said the YA wave coincides with the information wave , giving instantaneous messages to the ever rebellious youth…..
That si why the rebel archetype is used….. Can a dystopian mystery novel with a Muslim and a Christian, both widowed criminologists in their 30s, become a YA favorite? My novel is that kind of book. It is Divided Together , which is set in a sharia-law Muslim country that is part of America in the year A. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Prove you are human, type c a t s in singular form below:. The Rising Popularity of Dystopian Literature Dystopian fiction has grown as a genre and continues to evolve today. Divergent is one of many of dystopian novels to become a huge Hollywood film The concept of dystopian literature is to not only entertain readers, but to let them understand the ideas and characteristics of a dystopian society.
The tributes in the Hunger Games are seen metaphorically as students of high school who will stop at nothing to be at the top of the food chain. The factions in Divergent are compared to the stereotypical cliques of high school. Dystopian novel authors have started writing more strong willed women roles creating a whole new audience to this genre. Works Cited Astor, Dave. Stevens, Dana.
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Like 3,, likes. RSS Feed. Roland Barthes: Love as a Language. A dystopian worldview, whether derived from fiction or real-world events, can have therapeutic value—no matter which side of the aisle your politics belong on. Dystopian literature has long given writers a means of interrogating the world around them. The English professor planned to include modern utopian narratives as well, but found that 20th-century texts—and preoccupations—skewed pronouncedly pessimistic.
That outlook suffuses not just Donald Trump's rhetoric "American carnage," anyone? Some writers feel the same way. Years ago, I described Walden 2 in a student essay as an invisible despotism. I meant that psychological principles were used to control virtually all behaviour of the masses. My professor put a question mark next to my comment. Utopian stories are not as popular as dystopias. One reason is that there is less potential for interesting conflict in utopian stories.
Another is that utopias are much harder to believe. Most of us can agree on elements of a dystopia: dangerous conditions, brutal oppression by the government or no government, lack of human rights.
Millions of people live like that right now in this world of ours. We are lucky not to be among them.
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