Controlled Environment In Dystopian Literature

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Most dystopian fiction have the similar setting of a controlled environment. In the controlled environment, there is always a superior power who is in charge of the characters, usually without the characters knowing or wanting them to. This power most likely dominates the society because they censor the citizens to maintain their high ranking. They usually hide the past history or their future plans. An example of how the government hides things from the characters, takes place in the short story “The Fun They Had’’ on page 2 where it says, "Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that time ago" (Asimov 2). This shows that the characters do not know things about the past people and society, since the government doesn’t let them

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