The purpose of this research is to know the working of Dystopian Fiction genre as sub-genre in Science Fiction through some elements of novel namely plot, character, and setting. The writer uses qualitative descriptive analysis method to analyze them. The data are collected from the novel and they are analyzed by using the concept of Science fiction and Dystopian Fiction genre. From the analysis of this novel, the writer finds that the plot shows some philosophical issues, such as moral and social questions about society, as well as more general questions about power and authority such as the inequality between the rich and the poor, a hierarchical society between the upper, middle and lower class (Caste system). Then, it is ended with unresolved plot. In describing characters in her novel, the author focuses on ideas. The moral, social, and philosophical questions in this genre are emphasized more than through characters. The descriptions of the characters in the novel are divided into two different unequal conditions. These conditions represent the moral and social issues such as poverty, starvation, inequality between the rich and the poor, and the sense of injustice by the oppressive government. And then, the setting of the time and the place in this novel is also supporting the Dystopian Fiction genre, because the atmosphere of the setting of place often frames the story with two different unequal conditions which indicate the social class system and the setting of time set in the future. From the characteristics that showed above, the writer concludes that this novel can be categorized as Dystopian Fiction Genre based on the intrinsic elements of the novel especially plot, character and setting.

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