The Dystopia Archetype

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The dystopia archetype uses the future as a template for a scenario of what a society, in which everything is undesirable or unsatisfactory, ordinarily an environmentally vulgarized one or a totalitarian society, could look like under certain circumstances as a result of a conflict or social issue that occurs in today's world. It is used to teach society about what their future or the future of their descendants could look like if these social issues or conflict are not
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