Posts that offer definitions of important terms and chronicle the class’s ongoing efforts to define what a dystopia is.
The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines the term dystopia as “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic”. I define dystopia as a society consumed by perils, conformity, and freedom infringement, while civilians are simultaneously plagued by immense fear Continue reading
I would define a dystopia as a real world where people are living in a state of fear while enduring undesirable and oppressive conditions that bring about a loss of happiness. Drawing from the media I’ve consumed, I feel this is a good definition to describe a dystopia because these Continue reading
A dystopia is a reality where society is permeated and governed by fear, oppression, isolation, and haunted by the consequences of mounting rash decisions. A dystopia usually results when a society is at the end of its rope, and its leaders are grasping for their final attempt to get a Continue reading
“Dystopia defines a society that is almost unimaginable for most as they are being suppressed of the joys of everyday life, almost as if the everyday person is a prisoner.” Before learning about the true definition of a dystopian society, I can say that I held the same beliefs as Continue reading
A dystopia is a terrifying tale of a broken society in which people live in misery, lose their fundamental rights, and experience general misery. It shows a gloomy picture of the future and can be seen in literature, films, and occasionally in real life. In dystopias, people lose their freedom, Continue reading
In my own terms, a dystopia is a world where everything is set to this standard of perfection, where there is no free will and outliers, or people whom are not within these standards aren’t permitted. Based on movies and novels such as The Giver, where this society have no Continue reading
I would define dystopia as a society that controls and governs what people have access to, what they look like, and what they are allowed to say. The first book/movie that I think of when I hear the word dystopia is The Giver. In this book, the knowledge from the Continue reading
The above is programming syntax to define a function called dystopia, which takes in a world and returns a world. This program, however, runs in an infinite loop as is, as nothing in the world is changed, and the return value simply repeats the previous call on the next run. Continue reading
A dystopia is a negative, imagined place that harbors a bad system and has miserable, pessimistic inhabitants. The reason why I defined a dystopia like I did above was because many of the dystopian books I have read in the past are usually based on a negative and bad society Continue reading
When most people think of dystopia they instantly correlate it with utopia, which means “an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect” and think dystopia is opposite of that. To me, dystopia describes a world or society where suffering and injustice are being inflicted on a group Continue reading
