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Dystopian Characteristics
SR: Social Restriction
- Social stratification: social class is
strictly defined and enforced (society is
split into a caste system where people
have specialized functions)
- Repression of the intellectual
(knowledge is power, ignorance keeps
people weak)
- Propaganda is used to control the
citizens of society
- Information, independent thought,
and freedom are restricted
- Citizens are perceived to be under
constant surveillance
-Citizens have fear of the outside world
- Citizens live in a dehumanized state
- Citizens conform to uniform
expectations. Individuality and dissent
are bad.
- The society is an illusion of a perfect
utopian world
SG: Social Groups
- Independent religion is notable
because it is omitted
- Family is attacked: the hostility
to motherhood (family loyalty is
a challenge to loyalty to the
state)
- Instead of normal religion, a
figurehead or concept is
worshipped by the citizens of
society
T: Technology
- People are conditioned to fear nature
- The natural world is banished or
distrusted
- The natural world has been mastered
to the point where nature has become
barren or turns against humankind
- Technological advances enslave
humans or regiment their lives
- Sophisticated equipment is used for
surveillance and punishment
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movie that demonstrates the
characteristic
Analyze how the scene
relates to the characteristic
Dystopian Characteristics
P: Politics
PC: Psychological Control
- Society is controlled by
philosophical ideology or
psychological warfare
often enforced through a
dictatorship or
theocratic government
E: Economy
- black market – items banned or
seen as contraband
- upper members of the
government have access to
wealth, luxury, and supposedly
contraband goods while average
people live in poverty
H: Hero
- often feels trapped and is
struggling to escape
- questions the existing social and
political systems
- believes or feels that something is
terribly wrong with the society in
which he or she lives
- helps the audience recognize the
negative aspects of the dystopian
world through his or her perspective
C: Conflict
- Social group somewhere is
not in control of the state,
rebelling.
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movie that demonstrates the
characteristic
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relates to the characteristic