The author uses the "fun-house" analogy to show how these dystopian depictions of society are tell-tale signs of a world where the warnings not to aim for higher and unattainable perfections may lead to.
Explanation:
Shelby Ostergaard, in <em>Someone Might Be Watching — An Introduction to Dystopian Fiction</em> uses the<em> "fun-house mirrors"</em> as an analogy to show how dystopian fictional works of literature are almost similar to our present day lives. Using the metaphor of these real world societies as a basis of the dystopian societies, the author seems to emphasize that the perfection that man is working so hard to achieve could lead to a dystopian world if these go unchecked.
Like the fun-house mirrors bring out the hidden or miniature flaws in a person, the distortions that we find funny in the mirrors are in reality what is the truth but we would not accept it. Rather than admitting to the truth of these claims, we tend to take them fleetingly. Stating that <em>"dystopias are usually constructed through this type of magnification"</em>, the informational text provides how these dystopian societies work to reveal the flaws of the society. But if these aims for perfection are taken to such extremes and unchecked, then the world will become in the future. And with the ever increasing <em>"flaws"</em> of the society going unchecked, the world of dystopian society is not much far for us.
