The Giver Research Paper

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“The life where nothing was unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain, or past” (The Giver, #1). Utopia, the perfect world or ideal state. England in the late 1500’s was a country religiously dominated by Catholicism. More, who almost became a priest, was a trusted advisor of King Henry Vlll. More wrote a book called Utopia, he wrote this book 11 years before King Henry got divorced with Catherine of Aragon. Utopian literature, written works where characters live in an ideal state. In dystopian literature, characters live in a dehumanizing and depressing world. Through Utopia, More criticized and provided the leaders of his time with keen insights to help improve his world by claiming that the leader