Dystopia

« Bastien Gobet English loving Alex with Lena’s own terms and living without him with “theirs”, which clearly illustrates the values of resistance, determination and the search of freedom.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh.

Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

(James McTeigue) The value of determination is the most present in the film V for Vendetta.

Even though determination goes hand in hand with violence in this film, V is ready to bring down the government whatever the costs, even his life.

This quote demonstrates this strong determination because V does not want to be acknowledged, he wants to be an idea.

The mask is a symbol of his idea and of resistance.

Once again, the values of determination, search of freedom and resistance seem to be connected.

Every resistant character is alienated and can’t live life how he/she wants to; that leads to the major values of determination to change, escape or circumvent the society, the search of freedom and resistance to improve their own life or the whole society.

Settings is the dystopian convention used to make readers think about a fiction society and its defaults.

Dystopian writers use features of their own world and distorts and exaggerates it until the imaginary society becomes a total dystopia, often as a warning of what could happen in the future.

These terrible aspects and the values they represent are comparable among dystopian texts.

In each of the three studied dystopian texts, the ruling power is characterised by oppressive, unequal and discriminatory, which are the values the governments represent.

Discrimination plays an enormous role in Gattaca’s society, firstly with labels “Valid” and “Unvalid”, which discriminates, even if illegal in this precise society, the non-genetically modified “God-Child”. https://cinemarevius.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/gattaca-valid1.jpg. »