Dystopian literature describes a dystopia: an imaginary place where the conditions of life are extremely bad.
Common characteristic of dystopian literature include:
- the setting is a futuristic, imagined society
- freedom has been taken away
- the past is kept a secret from the general public
- an important ceremony takes place
- the protagonist is viewed as a rebel
- the story contains violence
-the public is under constant survaillance
- people's emotions are controlled
- people suffer from oppresion
- individualism is not valued - the good of the whole society is put above the good of individuals
Some books that are of dystopian literature are:
The Giver
Divergent Trilogy
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The Roar (also a BOB book)
Dystopian literature is very popular today.
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