J,LAW, THE UTOPIA-DYSTOPIA LINK Reviews of The Hunger Games occasionally refer to dystopia. More familiar is its opposite utopia, an ideal perfect society and the title of Sir Thomas Mores 16th century fictional discourse on government. Dystopia then is tyrannical and totalitarian. The literal meaning of utopia is nowhere perhaps suggesting that it cannot be found outside the imagination. A fiction writer and critic says the utopia-dystopia forms are found in cultures influenced by Platos ideal(the Good) and the Judeo-Christian view of history. (Margaret Atwood, Writing Utopia in Writing With Intent). In utopia no lawyers are needed; in dystopia no lawyers are allowed. Law. freedom and rights are issues in the utopia-dystopia models and as far as we can recall, Thomas More was a lawyer. The dystopian country that is Panem in the Hunger Games will never be preferable to us citizens whose countries fall in between this utopia-dystopia divide, and whose games though less dramatic and heart-stopping are more interesting for being true-to-life.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:29:22 +0000
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