06-11-2020, 04:43 AM
(06-10-2020, 10:58 PM)gabrielle Wrote: The Matrix is a dystopian fantasy about resistance against an oppressive order, a common theme in science fiction for ages. It spoke to the general sense of unease in the 90s, a feeling that something was amiss, the suspicion that we were being lulled by commercialism and materialistic pleasures while being stolen from (which was pretty much exactly what was happening.)
Dark, dystopian fantasies have been quite popular in YA lit in recent years. Are Millennials cynical because of the Hunger Games?
There are so many dystopian fantasies and so few utopian fantasies out there... the Culture novels are the only popular utopian fiction, and the are a few decades old. Tell me that isn't cynicism!