Essential Questions for Dystopian Genre Study
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Is your dystopia the same as the person sitting next
to you? A dystopia is a world that is undesirable,
but this means that a person’s dystopia is based on
their fears.
What is the future going to be for us?
Can society operate without control and is peace the
result of a strict control?
Do people need to be excessively controlled in order
to manage a functional society?
What aspects of utopia/dystopia do we have in our
current society?
Is freedom necessary for a perfect society?
With the ever-growing need to be part of a group, to
fit in, is conformity starting to take over?
With the need to provide more, and overpopulation
becoming an ever-looming problem, is a dystopian
environment laying underneath the surface of our
daily lives?
In a totalitarian society such as in a dystopian
world, will peace ever be achieved and if so what
are the motivating factors?
Is a Dystopian society created by a sense of fear in
the community, corruption or some other source?
What are the differences between a dystopian society
and our society?
What is the more likely outcome for human society
Dystopia, or Utopia?
Do people with more radical ideas, often labelled as
extremists, have more of an impact on the direction
of the human race compared to the general public?
Do authors try to convey, or protest against,
certain aspects of our current society in their
fictional dystopian worlds, and do fictional
dystopian societies always result from flaws in our
current society?
Where is the line between just any societal change,
and a societal change that drives us into dystopia?
Related Texts Worth Studying
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Catching Fire (2009) by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (2010) by Suzanne Collins
Iron Heel By Jack London
Divergent by Veronica Roth
V is for Vendetta
1984 by George Orwell
Oblivion
The Walking Dead
The Giver
Insurgent By Veronica Roth
Hunger Games By Suzanne
Collins
Planet of the Apes movies
Gone Series By Michael
Grant
Farenheit 451
Animal Farm
I am Legend
The Day after Tomorrow
Dawn of The Dead
Lord of the Flies
The Time Machine
Bladerunner
The Matrix
The City of Ember (Book, series)
Total Recall (Movie, 1990, not
the 2012 one)
The Maze Runner (Book, series)
Empty (Book, Suzanne Weyn)
Epic (Book, Conor Kostick)
Total Recall (1990)
Gulliver’s Travels
Avatar
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Dark Knight Rises
Minority Report
City of the lost children
A cage of butterflies
Blood Zero Sky
The Death Cure
Shatter Me
Clockwork orange
Prometheus