The Truman Show: What Makes The Perfect Utopian Society

What makes a good life for individuals and what constitutes the perfect utopian society? These are important questions for humans living in the modern world and the answers to these questions radically affect the way that we view how power should be used. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we see how Orwell has used power in Napoleon and the rest of the pigs. The good life after Mr Jones has left and we see utopia after the animals’ revolution. In The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, we see similar effects. Like when Weir put Kristoff in the lead position of power. We also get a glimpse of what the good life and utopia look like in the town of Seahaven.The good life is determined by freedom and how we choose to live. This then affects what the perfect society would look like. A neat free world without wars and human rights. Certain individuals who hold power in any given society are justified to use their power to construct a society that best serves to deliver the good life to the people.

Throughout history the ¨powerful¨ people have controlled citizitation to make their view of a perfect life. In the Truman Show, Peter Weir suggests that even those with the most power think they do the right thing with it but really they use their power to control others. As the director of The Truman Show Kristoff uses his power as director to control everything in his perfect town of Seahaven. Similarly in the novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell suggests that “power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”. Throughout the book Orwell shows this through Snowball and Napoleon, as soon as Old Major passes away Snowball and Napoleon fight to change things by messing with the animals minds so it goes their way. Both Orwell and Weir suggest that power changes people and everything around