OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Paper 1
Fiction depicting an imagined society whose organisation causes oppression, suffering or injustice.
Revise: ContextThe novel is also a dystopia: its society is organised around an oppressive system. Yet its cruelty is often quiet, routine and institutional rather than spectacular. Euphemistic labels for caring, donating and dying help make that system sound ordinary.
- Revise: Science, ethics and society
A society marked by oppressive or frightening conditions, often used in fiction to expose problems in apparently desirable systems.