Modern Society In The 1920's By Zora Neale Hurston

Modern Society Final

All around the world people are defining themselves as modern, or living in modern day, or even living in a modern society. But the truth is, people as of today don 't know what a modern society even is. Our world thinks that no matter what, they are living in a modern society, and to some extent that is true, but what they don 't realize is how much they impact our society today.

In the 1920’s, society was blooming, increasing in population, excitement, and even technology. The people that lived in the age were part of a society then known as modern. They played together, worked together, conversed with each other and lived their lives with one another. The people of the time, no matter what they did

From the 1920’s to the twentieth century change is occurring all around and it 's our choice to whether or not we want to change or stay the same. In a modern society not only is it how you dress, how you talk, eat, sleep or even just walk it’s technologic advances, class placements, judgemental views. In another novel written by Zora Neale Hurston, it’s clearly defined that in a modern society there are different ways to talk, and even judge physically or racially. "Ah thought you would ‘preciate good treatement. Thought Ah’d take and make somethin’ outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act” (Hurston 29). In this quote it shows that in a modernized way of life based in the 1930’s judgemental views of racial superiority was still occurring. Hurston points out that ‘white people’ act differently than blacks in a way that they are treated better and that they expect more. Since these views were placed a type of racial superiority was born. This evolved from a simple thing as just a color of skin. Like all things, the modern society of racial superiority evolved into little to almost non-existence because somebody decided he wanted a change. Somebody wanted to stop racial superiority and make everything equal and re-modernize the

Many people around the world today wonder what it would be like to have a utopian society where everyone is equal and judgment isn’t existent. Though people have wondered this, it clearly is not possible because somebody has to create something to equal things out and as humans, we have a nature to want to be better, or more efficient than others. In recent films such as Harrison Bergeron, a utopian society is attempted to be created and seem successful in the beginning, but like before, there is always one who knows, or has more power and control than the others. Eventually utopian societies will fail and become dystopian where government controls or a supreme being will be a ruler, this is why we have to keep our society as modern as