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Dystopia versus Utopia

The dystopia It is the concept that is used as the opposite of that of utopia because it names that imaginary world, which is normally created for the literature or for the seventh art, and characterized by being unpleasant, undesirable to live. As we know, utopia also proposes a scenario, a world that does not exist in reality but to which one yearns to reach, to reach sometime, because it implies harmony, peace, love, that is, all desirable and loved situations by most people.
That is why many also use the concept of antiutopia to refer to it as well.

The scope of the politics was the first to use this concept back in the nineteenth century, the English political leader John Mill he used the idea in one of his parliamentary speeches.

Dystopia, a warning against political evils

It should be noted that a good part of the novels, dystopian stories, use or start from real events that happen in the communities and that due to the negative content they hold, they will end up generating unwanted and totally dysfunctional events for the harmony and health of that society.

Many behaviors that are clearly negative are taken as primary actions of dystopias because they are clearly capable of unleashing scenarios and models of totally unfair countries and unbalanced. In other words, dystopia often acts as a warning of what can happen if there are no concrete and beneficial changes in the political or social direction, among others.

1984, a dystopian world

One of the most paradigmatic and clear examples of dystopia, in the field of literature, is the book1984 by English author George Orwell. There Orwell raises what life is like in a community that is watched every minute by the authorities and in which they are dominated by political propaganda. Its central character, Winston Smith, is the only one who tries to live and remember the past as tool to rebel against this oppressive present.

Through the work, Orwell, tries to make a strong critique of the totalitarianism, that is, showing the repression and the lack of Liberty to which this society submits wants to demonstrate the dire consequences of living in a dictatorial state of affairs.