Dictatorship and Dehumanisation: A Study of Selected British Dystopia

The word ¿dystopiä consists of the Greek prefix ¿dys¿. It means ¿ill¿, ¿bad¿ or¿abnormal¿. To quote from the oxford Dictionary, the definition of dystopia is, ¿an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one¿. Dystopian novels examine the fate of an individual in a technologically advanced society. ¿Utopiä is defined as an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. The exact definition, given in the oxford dictionary for Utopia is , ¿an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Misplaced faith in political Utopias has led to ruin¿.