Definitions by Anna Tretyak

1. SENTENCE DEFINITION
Utopia (in literature) – is a fictional genre that describes ideal society.

2. EXTENDED DEFINITION
Utopia (in literature) – is a genre of fiction that shows an ideal social structure. In Greek this word means “no place” – a place that does not exist. This word was first used by Thomas More in his work named Utopia, 1516. Than it became a genres’ name for works that imagine non-existent ideal society or present new political structure that can lead to the ideal society like Plato’s The Republic. As antithesis for utopia appeared dystopia – a fictional genre that describes society that suffers from utopical experiment made on it. Authors of dystopical fiction show that utopia can be good at theory but bad on practice. The examples of dystopia are works by George Orwell Animal Farm and 1984.