Dystopia and Its Discontents

How Visions of a Dystopic Future Change Over Time

“The other day a great friend of yours, Thomas More – who is, I'm sure you'll agree, one of the glories of our age – sent me the enclosed account of Utopia. At present very few people know about this island, but everyone should want to, for it's like Plato's Republic, only better – especially as it's described by such a talented author.”

Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)

“It is, perhaps, too complimentary to call them Utopians, they ought rather to be called dys-topians, or caco-topians. What is commonly called Utopian is something too good to be practicable; but what they appear to favour is too bad to be practicable.”

John Stuart Mill, Hansard Commons (1868)

 

University Honors Thesis: "Historicizing Maps of Hell"

Section I: Introduction

Section II: Dystopias of the Great War Era

Section III: Dystopias of the Post-War and Cold War Era

Section IV: Dystopias of the Post-Cold War Era

Section V: Conclusions

Section VI: Works Cited

 

Other Dystopian Creations

| "Diabolus ex Machina: Technology in Dystopian Literature" | "1984 and the Language of Oppression" |

| Dystopian Citation Database |


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