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Comparing Letter To Coretta Scott And Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a figure known world-wide for introducing controversy into a closed-minded society. However, perhaps his success is not in bringing authentic material, but authentic presentation. In the “Letter to Coretta Scott” written by King to his then girlfriend, he discusses Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward. A New York Times article summarizes the novel as a Utopian fictional, “fanciful romance” novel in which a Bostonian named Julian West, alive in the year 1887, slept for 113 years and woke up in the year of 2000 (Sloat). Although King criticizes Bellamy’s Utopian society to be “idealism not tempered with realism,” both share many similarities in ideas as well as the effects of their revolution (4). Bellamy’s novel highlights
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