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In order to comprehend the changes and generic modifications this work will examine, it is vital to understand the dystopian genre, its terminologies, as well as its complex history and intertextual relationships. This chapter will therefore provide a short introduction to dystopian fiction and a brief overview of the most important topics and themes, forms and functions of the dystopian genre before attempting to clarify the confusion associated with the terms ‘utopia,’ ‘eutopia,’ and ‘dystopia.’ The chapter “Context, Criticism, and Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life (2014)” will then conclude this section by introducing Rahel Jaeggi’s taxonomy of criticism, which provides the theoretical backbone necessary to structure not only the brief introduction to the three canonical novels by Orwell, Huxley, and Zamyatin but also the more extensive analysis of contemporary dystopian writing.