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Elements of Dystopian Novels:                                 

• intense or extreme social control (with emphasis on the negative effects of the control)
• satires or makes fun of a utopian society
• concerned with politics and culture
• offers a warning of what will happen under certain circumstances
• author examines "poverty, squalor, or oppression"
• elements of control and lack of freedoms
• restricted information
• humanity taken away (dehumanized)
• illustion of a utopia or perfect world

Elements of a Dystopian Hero:

• helps the reader to understand the problems with the society
• discovers secret, restricted, or hidden information which causes them to act
• feels trapped or isolated physically and/or socially
• takes a risk or is a rebel
• insider to their society

Utopia: the perfect society; an imangined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. This genre of literature explores social and political structure.

Dystopia: an imperfect society; an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. This genre of literature explores social and political structure.

Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse: This genre deals with the threat to civilization after a world altering disaster such as nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, etc and how humans overcome the event.

Ectopian: a world that revolves around environmental conservation or destruction.

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