A utopia is described in the dictionary as, “an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect”. To anyone living in the modern day world succeeding in creating a utopia would be like finding Willy Wonka’s golden ticket, if not better. In many books a utopia is created but soon crumbles to become a dystopia. A utopia is an individual’s perfect society, but a society is a group of people. Therefore, I disagree with the fact of a Utopia forming.
Many books prove that a Utopian society is unlikely to form. Fictional books such as “The House of The Scorpion”, “Animal Farm”, and “Harrison Bergeron” all prove that utopia’s can’t happen even in fictional settings. “The House of The Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer took place in Opium, Opium was controlled by a rich drug lord El Patrón. Once El Patrón passes, Opium is left in despair. Although Matt is now in charge the used to be “utopia” is now considered a dystopia. In the short story by Kurt Vonnegut “Harrison Bergeron”, the future United States has brainwashed it’s citizen’s into thinking they live in a utopia because everyone has been modified to be the
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In the present many are trying, and in the future many attempts at creating a utopia are to come. The now small but historical town of New Harmony, Indiana is a great example of an attempted utopia. In 1814, George Rapp promised a group of separatist German Lutheran followers a heaven on earth, the town he was about to create would be the setting of Christ’s second coming he thought. The group built a religious ruled town that achieved great economic wealth but lasted only but a decade before they sold the town to Robert Owen, the town never reached the title of a utopia and of course Christ never came but this town was very close but, as predicted never became a utopia. This real life non-fiction town proves that the idea of a utopian society should stay in the fiction section of the