Assignment #1 (15) Sentence Requirement=3 Define the word "dystopian" based on the short informational paragraph below.
DYSTOPIA VS. UTOPIA
A DYSTOPIA is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening.
Such societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in a future. Dehumanization,
totalitarian governments, environmental disaster often characterize dystopias, or other
characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. It is a society in which everything has
gone horribly wrong and injustice or chaos holds sway. This might be a post-apocalyptic society
where all governments have collapsed and human beings have to fight to survive; or it might be a
totalitarian society in which powerful authority figures control every aspect of citizens' lives.
A UTOPIA is a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. It is an
imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. For thousands of years human beings
have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion