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SeekJustice replied to the topic Art and Propaganda in Dystopian Fiction in the forum Research and Worldbuilding 7 years, 11 months ago
They are not rebelling for art, necessarily, they are using art to rebel. basically, I have a whole bunch of revolutionaries, but they’re methods of attempting to change the world are all different, and one lot of them use art of various kinds which is banned/censored, as their form of revolt. Does that make sense?
Currently, I think I’m leaning more toward censorship, because as @hope-ann said, people tend to want things that are forbidden, simply because it’s forbidden, but censorship tends to be more subtle and also probably more terrifying, in my opinion.
@karthmin I honestly hadn’t thought much about the theme, so thanks for bringing that up! I think the idea of “true” vs “false” art is probably more what I’m going for, since it’s only really a subplot and not the main theme. I feel like the importance of art for humanity is much too big to fit into that, but I would love to try a story with that as the main theme one day.
Thanks all of you for your thoughts!












