Utopia is Impossible
Many people want to build an utopian society, but nobody succeed. So we need to know why that can not be successed. At this point, I found that in a book called written by Lois Lowry, people wanted to build an utopian community. They thought this is utopia, but in fact this is dystopia because people in the community have to follow tons of rules, they cannot see colors and they don’t know what is love. Although people always think utopia is perfect, and they always tried to build an utopian society, they still failed. There I found 3 reasons about why utopia is impossible -- utopia is an ideal idea, utopian society should be very peaceful and utopian society should be fair , but these will never happen.
Utopia is an ideal idea. Because in the book, People want to make a perfect community, but they do not have their memories and freedom, they have to follow the rules. Rules were very hard to change (Lowey 17). Because of these rules, people cannot be themselves. They have to follow these rules and change their characters and then turn themselves into the same pattern. Also in real life, many people tried to build an utopia world, but because of people’s selfishness and appetence, this could never happen. Human personality defects... selfishness... even altruism is a selfish act
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But in the book, even though people in the community do not have wars, the kids played the war game. With his new, heightened feelings, he was overwhelmed by sadness at the way the others had laughed and shouted, playing at war (Lowey 169 ). Even though they don’t know what are they doing, they still tried to pretend to hurt others. And in real life, because of some people’ avarice, they waging wars. You can find that since even more than 100 thousand years ago, in primitive societies, some people in order to satisfy their possessive greed, they started wars to plunder slaves, territory and wealth. (What are the reasons of