What are the common themes in dystopian art and literature and how do authors and writers use them?

By: Togo, Marc, Baptiste, Martin

What is dystopia and where does it come from?

Generally, dystopia is a world where nothing is perfect and problems are more extreme.

Dystopia comes from the Ancient Greek roots dys- and –topia which means “bad” and “place to live”. Without the dys- in dystopia it will be utopia which is the opposite of dystopia. It is a world where everything is perfect

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What is dystopian art and literature?

It is a genre of book in which social and politics are very bad. It's a nightmare.

Dystopia is most of the time characterized by a society that suffers of poverty, squalor or oppression. Most of the time, Science fiction is the theme.

The goal of dystopian literature is to frighten the reader. It also proves that a perfect society doesn’t exist.

Dystopian literature is also used to warn people of a modern trend.

Utopia is totally different. It's a world in which everything is perfect.

Dystopian art, is an image that the artist shows an artwork which can tell you that it could be terrifying. It is a picture that connects with the word dystopia which is made up with a prefix of “dys”. “Dys” means bad or difficult. Dystopian Art can become a big impact to people because the artist will be illustrating and Dystopian artwork with a strong feeling which should affect other people’s thinking or feelings.

Literature Art

https://www.questia.com/library/literature/literary-themes-and-topics/dystopian-literatureBy Proving a Completely Perfect Society Is Not Possible - Showing the Awful Results of What Happens If the Goal Is Social Perfection Rather than Incremental Social Improvement - Dystopia Shocks the Reader into Accepting Humanity's Flaws as Ineradicable an. "Dystopian Literature."List of Books and Articles about. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. 

The common themes in dystopian art and literature. Economic problems and poverty problems Violence, social problems, problem with government Attacks with monsters, creatures (zombies) and

different civil war An example of a book which has dystopian is Hunger

Games. In this book the theme is poverty and the effects of war against others.

The protagonists are considered big leaders or in other cases rebels or survivors

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How do authors use them?

You have to think about what are the current technologies in your world and how to incorporate them in your writing.

Take problems from the present in your life and put them in the future. How would they affect the future?

Like we said before the Hunger Games theme is poverty and war. The author used poverty as the people in the districts are poor and the war as the people fighting against each other in an arena.

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