The House of the Scorpion represents or resembles a dystopian novel in many ways that are surprising and relevant to the real world. Some characteristics in the House of the Scorpion such as corporate control, dehumanization/intellectual repression, social stratification, eugenics, and surveillance state are shown throughout the novel. The three most significant characteristics of the story are corporate control, dehumanization/intellectual repression, and eugenics. These big ideas tie in together in the House of the Scorpion thus making it a dystopian novel.
Corporate control is shown in this novella because there is one large corporation that controls the whole country, in this case it would be El Patron the Lord of Opium who is controlling people through drugs, money, and his powerful relation. In this story, the main character Matt, who is a clone of El Patron is a perfect example of dehumanization/intellectual repression because in the novella, there is a belief that clones are monsters and should not be treated equal to a human and with that they treated Matt he was not a human being when he actually had every attributes of a human being. This is an example of dehumanization because characters in the story keeps making Matt feels less of himself, to the point where he could lost the true meaning of his identity.
Corporate control is shown in this novella because there is one large corporation that controls the whole country, in this case it would be El Patron the Lord of Opium who is controlling people through drugs, money, and his powerful relation. In this story, the main character Matt, who is a clone of El Patron is a perfect example of dehumanization/intellectual repression because in the novella, there is a belief that clones are monsters and should not be treated equal to a human and with that they treated Matt he was not a human being when he actually had every attributes of a human being. This is an example of dehumanization because characters in the story keeps making Matt feels less of himself, to the point where he could lost the true meaning of his identity.