Dystopian Literature

- teens are seen as "exposed" to the new ideas of thinking-some see it as a revolutionary promoting-allows people to sense the future

-offshoot of Utopian Fiction-spikes in popularity seems to have started from the lead up to the world war two and the cold war and then as a result of 9/11 and the war on terror

a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintined through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral or totalitarian control

EFFECT on American Society

FACTS

In many books, they portray the government as being corrupt and crazy. If someone looks at society over the years, all those insane books are starting to match with our present-day world.

Relationto History

DYSTOPIAN LITERATUREest.-1900s when Utopian Fiction's popularity began growing