Famous authors
Most known for her book series turned movies about a young Katniss Everdeen
Suzanne Collins
The series that follows a teenage protagonist in a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty.
Hunger games
"Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable"
Handsmaid Tale
Describe a utopia
A perfect world
Janine Ofwarren
This author is well known for her famous book turned TV show “The Handmaids Tale”
Margaret Atwood
A futuristic dystopian novel published in 1985. Set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government.
The Handsmaid Tale
"I volunteer as tribute"
Hunger Games
What do dystopias often start with?
An illusion of a perfect society/UTOPIA.
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy written by American author Suzanne Collins. She is portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the film adaptations of the trilogy
Katniss Everdeen
”Animal Farm” is his best seller.
George Orwell
The story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
Animal Farm
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Fahrenheit 451
Describe a dystopia
An imaginary future world in which society is controlled by something, a faulty utopia
A fictional character and the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopia novel Fahrenheit 451. He is depicted living in a futuristic town where he works as a "fireman" whose job is to burn books and the buildings they are found in.
Guy Montag
Best known for his book “Brave New World”
Aldous Huxley
A 1953 dystopian novel, it presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.
Fahrenheit 451
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
1984
Most common theme in dystopian books
The government
The first major character described by George Orwell in his 1945 novella Animal Farm. An elderly Middle White boar, his "purebred" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change.
Old Major
Known as the creator of the dystopian genre, his book “We” has influenced future dystopian authors
Yevgeny Zamyatin
A dystopian novel that explores the dangers of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and the manipulation of truth. A future society, Oceania, where the government, led by the omnipresent figure of Big Brother, controls every aspect of citizens' lives.
1984
"The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience"
The Giver
Who created the first utopia?
Sir Thomas Moore
A character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state where in the ruling party, Ingsoc, wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants.
Big Brother