totalitarian dystopia theme
There is a society in which the ruling government aspires to complete control over all aspects of life, i.e., including what people should read, think, say, and do in their "free time".
33 total · 4 choice · 22 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds92x15 | choice | Alixus ran a textbook totalitarian community down to the hell-box punishments. |
| novel: We (1920) | choice | One State is the definition of a totalitarian state: people have been reduced to mere numbers and must act almost entirely according to a state mandated protocol throughout their lives. |
| novel: We the Living (1936) | choice | Rand shows us how governmental domination over all aspects of private life gradually established itself after the revolutions. We see for example that in order to have a job, people had to memorize propaganda from approved newspapers. The USSR gradually turned into a place where each person had to tow the party line if they wanted to have a decent life. |
| tz1959e2x29 | choice | We saw a society in which, clearly, the rulers decided what is true and what people were allowed to believe. |
| movie: Alphaville (1965) | major | Alphaville was an Orwellian sort of totalitarian society run by a computer. |
| movie: Cyborg 2087 (1966) | major | The world had become a classic totalitarian dystopia by the year 2087. Children were taken from their parents at birth and made property of the state. |
| movie: Equilibrium (2002) | major | The story is set in a future totalitarian city-state where feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens are compelled by law to take emotion suppressing drugs. |
| movie: Escape from LA (1996) | major | The film is set in a near future where the United States is a totalitarian state, ruled by a theocratic president for life. In this future United States, citizens who partake in such things as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, recreational drugs, red meat, firearms, profanity, atheism, non-Christian religions, and extramarital sex are stripped of citizenship and banished to the open air prison that is Los Angeles. |
| movie: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) | major | The story took place in a superstate called Oceania, where each person was closely monitored for the state to control their beliefs and opinions. |
| movie: Rising Storm (1989) | major | The fundamentalist Christian government of the United States outlawed non-approved media, subjected people to daily urine and blood tests, home inspections by armed men, and instituted mandatory church service attendance. They also ran sham elections in what amounted to a perversion of democracy. |