The Masses And The Dystopian Novel Elysium Essay

The connection between these texts is they all feature compliancy of the masses, and all feature in some form of dystopian worlds. The texts all feature varying forms of dystopia, Bioshock features a dystopia brought on by evolutionary war, whereas brave new world features a world where the state has unlimited control over the technology and the people that rely on it. Paragraph 1 In Elysium, the film has an imaginary space station called â€Å"Elysium† this station hold only the most elite people, everybody else lives in a worldwide slum down on earth. The people on earth all just try to survive those who have jobs are forced to preform back braking labour for a minuscule pay, most just accept this fact and occupy themselves with trying to survive. This is the compliancy of the masses and the dystopian element in â€Å"Elysium† the fact that all these people lie down and let the elitists walk all over them is depressing. The author seems to be suggesting that humans will always treat each other poorly and that as people get more power they are more willing to risk human life for their own benefit. And the author is also showing how if we allow the masses to become complacent with poor living conditions society will fall into dystopia. Mr Blomkamp made these ideas apparent by the use of grimy conditions in the film, he also showed the risk people are put in by having a man fully exposed to lethal amounts of radiation and his co-workers being forced to continue production without