{"id":1397455,"date":"2017-03-17T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397455"},"modified":"2020-03-16T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:47:05","slug":"dystopian-novels-summed-up-in-a-single-dire-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/dystopian-novels-summed-up-in-a-single-dire-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopian Novels Summed Up in a Single Dire Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/may10dystopiassummedupMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>Dystopian novels ask us not to see the world as it is, but as it COULD be (you know, if things were just a little bit worse, and if everyone was constantly wearing beige and riding trains to nowhere).<\/p>\n<p>Now, depending on your life choices, you may have already stumbled upon our previous posts in this series (including but not limited to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/04\/12\/every-shakespeare-play-summed-up-in-a-single-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Every Shakespeare Play Summed Up in a Single Sentence<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/04\/27\/famous-playwrights-summed-up-in-a-single-stage-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Famous Playwrights Summed Up in a Single Stage Direction<\/a>). But the hallmark of a good dystopia is that it leaves you feeling vaguely unsettled about the current state of the world, and with a lingering suspicion that this could happen to us if we&#8217;re not careful. So today we&#8217;ll be summing up a bunch of dystopian novels in a single dire warning of things to come. Enjoy, and beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dystopian novels ask us not to see the world as it is, but as it COULD be (you know, if things were just a little bit worse, and if everyone was constantly wearing beige and   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25018,7],"tags":[628,10615,5959,25017,21819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397455"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443005,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397455\/revisions\/1443005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}