Elements of Dystopian Literature

What type of Dystopia is this?

Rule by an autocratic totalitarian party or elite group that limits choice through oppressive means such as repressing speech and suppressing minorities.

• Orwellian

• Huxleyan

• Khafkaesque

• Phildickian

What type of Dystopia is this?

Rule by democratic, totalitarian, capitalist, and/or technocratic systems. Control is maintained through desire, debt, narcotic, technical necessity and implicit threat of violence.

• Orwellian

• Huxleyan

• Khafkaesque

• Phildickian

What type of Dystopia is this?

Rule by bureaucracy. Bureaucratic “red tape” is the form of control that is used to frustrate and dehumanize citizens of a society through pointless affairs. A state of affairs which permits and encourages those systems that demoralize society, especially those who threaten “management.”

• Orwellian

• Huxleyan

• Khafkaesque

• Phildickian

What type of Dystopia is this?

Rule by replacing reality with abstract totalitarianism, or rule by disengagement. The conversion of social spaces such as classrooms, offices, markets, and even prisons into “immersive” online holodecks with positive and negative reward systems for participants.

• Orwellian

• Huxleyan

• Khafkaesque

• Phildickian

When one of more large business controls society through products, advertising, and/or the media, it is an example of ________________ control.

When society is controlled through computers, robots and/or scientific means, it is an example of ______________ control

When society is controlled through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials, it is an example of ______________ control

When society is controlled through ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government, it is an example of ______________ control

This is the premise that the dystopian society puts forth as their vision of utopia. This usually takes the form of some problem that has been solved.

This is the dark truth behind the posit, usually something that the protagonist discovers during the story.