Suggestions for Further Research
"A Slave State: Society in Sir Thomas More's Utopia - Capitalism Magazine." Capitalism Magazine. January 11, 2004. Accessed July 6, 2015.
This magazine article highlights the best ideas from Thomas More’s Utopia.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
This is a dystopian novel set in the near future where a totalitarian governments controls people based on their race, gender, and occupation.
Bradbury, Ray, and Jacques Chambon. Farenheit 451. Paris: Belin:, 2011.
This is a dystopian novel set in a future American society where the government controls people through media, overpopulation, censorship, and conformity. The people live in a society where there are no reminders of history or appreciation of the past.
Brooks, David. "The Child in the Basement." The New York Times. January 12, 2015. Accessed July 10, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0.
This is an article that highlights the dystopian circumstances in multiple societies. David Brooks argues that the oppressed suffer so that the rest of society can achieve happiness and success.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World, a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran &, 1932.
This novel depicts a dystopian society that controls people through psychological manipulation, conditioning, and reproductive technology.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. New York: International Publishers, 1948.
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx argues that economically disadvantaged groups remain oppressed because of the lack of economic interest the economically wealthy and powerful have taken in them.
Orwell, George, and Thomas Pynchon. 1984. Barcelona: Debolsillo, 2013.
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
This is a dystopian novel that depicts society as a world plagued with government surveillance, constant war, public manipulation, and consequential political agendas.
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