The Most Likely Scenario In a Dystopian Novel

There a many themes and scenarios in dystopian novels. Ranging from total government take over to extreme natural disasters to a complete lost of humanity, but I think that the most likely scenario in a dystopian novel would a total government take over. Something where an entirely new political party slips into power and the countries under its control slip into chaos. Humans are so fearful of the government as it is, that it would only take one act of terrorism or one framed act of treason against the current government to get people to believe that the current government is out to get them. Then another political group promise to restore power and does just that, except they use their own set of rules. They employ spying tactics. They take away freedoms from people, but the people are alright with it at the time because of the current state of the government. Once people have realized what has happened with the government, it is already to late. The government has such a foot hold that people can no longer take down the government.

The scariest dystopian theme would have to be a barren and chaotic earth with gangs of people roaming around it. Waking up to a post apocalyptic country with nothing but the clothes you are wearing and very few supplies would have to be the most nerve racking thing ever. You are on your own, whether you know how to survive or not, you are the prey of the gangs. You maybe have a gun or weapon to protect yourself, but that's it. You are done for and must keep moving in order to stay alive. You can rest until you die, and if you are caught by a gang, there is nothing saying they will kill you right away. You might be a slave to them, or they may just decide to kill you and take your stuff. It doesn't matter which happens, or really what happens, that is hands down the scariest dystopian theme there is.

The Road

When everything is destroyed and ravaged by the people still alive, everyone finds something to turn to be their beacon of hope. The man has his boy. His boy is his beacon and his hope that he stills has left in humanity. He tries his hardest to keep the boy alive and trained because he knows he wont last much longer. It is a sad way to live, but in a world where laws don't exist and supplies of any kind are rarer than diamonds, it is the best thing anyone can have. The boy carries this "fire" that the man has convinced him the good guys only carry. I think that the fire represents the hope that the man personally has left, and the boy's only shed of humanity that he still holds on to.

The boy is also very interesting. He, despite everything, still manages to find hope and a god to talk to. We don't know where the boy has formed the ideas of god because he was never brought up religious in the story, but it is interesting to note that the boy still believes in a divine being while his father does not. The boy is putting his faith in something that may not be true at all, but he is showing that he stills has faith for a better tomorrow. The father places his faith in the boy because he won't have to many more tomorrows, but the boy still has a very long life to live, even though he has lost most of his innocence.