In a dystopian society, the (a)   of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, or moral/religious control.

A utopia is a place, state, or condition that is ideally (a)   in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.

Corporate Control: one or more large (a)   control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Example: Minority Report.

Bureaucratic (Government) Control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent (a)   officials. Example: The Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend

Technological Control: Society controlled by (a)   --through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. Example: The Matrix, The Terminator, and I Robot

The society is an (a)   of a perfect utopian world.

(a)   is used to control the citizens of society.

Information, independent thought and freedom are (a)   .

A figurehead or concept is (a)   by the citizens of the society.

Citizens are perceived to be under constant (a)   .

Citizens have a (a)   of the outside world.

Citizens live in a (a)   state.

The natural world is banished and (a)   .

Citizens conform to uniform expectations. (a)   and dissent are bad.

Dystopias are often part of a (a)   universe, therefore a back story of how this world came to be or how it evolved (or devolved) from our current world is necessary.

The protagonist feels something is wrong with its’ society and seeks for it to be (a)   .

The emerging hero often feels (a)   and struggle to escape.

The emerging hero (a)   the existing social and political systems.

The emerging hero helps the audience recognize the (a)   aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.

The accepted hero is part of the Utopian perception of the dystopia, but eventually discovers or comes to the understanding how wrong society has become and either attempts to change it or (a)   it.

Often, in the conflict, the hero meets a person who represents the dystopia, possibly the (a)   of the society.

In the conflict, the hero meets and is sometimes (a)   by a group of people who are also trying to escape or destroy the dystopia.

In the conflict, sometimes there are people who were once (a)   of the dystopia, but were exiled or have escaped, or they have created their own society within the dystopia.

In the climax, the hero may make their individual stand and often fails, but gives (a)   to others.