Friday, March 11, 2016

Word 12

Word of the Week

Dystopia 

Source: http://flavorwire.com/564607/not-with-a-bang-what-if-the-apocalypse-already-happened-and-no-one-noticed

"Dystopian fiction is more popular than ever, and the dystopias we imagine grow directly out of our own society. The Road, The Hunger Games, Fallout… pretty much every popular dystopian narrative envisages what might be left after the end of our world."

noun
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

example
Clockwork Orange is the perfect example of a movie with a dystopian world.


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