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Modern day Dystopia

Dystopia is a dark vision of future which is imaginary , existing in a wretched place where life is fearful , full of miserable , oppression human misery , violence and dehumanizing . Dystopian society lives with a fiction and prototypes of putting its population on trial , basing essence on concentration camps enslaving and disenfranchising entire classes of citizens and prey on oneself through justifying and glorifying violence by law (Relihan 1996 , 23

Dystopia society is considered undesirable because current trends are driven

to nightmarish extremes . Frequently writings on dystopia are set as satires or warnings to indicate extrapolations of current trends to nightmarish conclusion . The characteristics of dystopia societies have made humanists , revolutionists and governments to discourage them as much as possible . The first reason is because the society is imaginary for it does not reflect contemporally society which explores probabilities and possibilities . Secondly , this society does not conform to tendencies of contemporally whole and thus can 't serve as a representative society . Again , dystopia illustrations and revelations about life are made to frighten and provoke . Dystopia is relative with time and place , making it spread fast because of technological advancements . The existence of this ideology is hard to define and demarcate , and thus intuitive (Otten , 1982 , 56

If this ideology is left to spread , it may be difficult to govern the society and ensure conformity in economic , social and political domains This is because the society will be characterized by social stratification...

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