A Utopia, a perfect society is something everybody dreams about but it is not easy to achieve. There have been many groups that have tried to achieve it. Many of these groups put in everything they can to try and create a utopia for their people and it still doesn’t work out. Trying to create a utopia would be extremely difficult for even the smartest people.
H. L. Mencken wrote “the average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” I agree with this quote because of the deeper meaning it has behind it. In today’s society, people do not seem to have ambitions or dreams that they want to pursue. A lot of people settle with a job that pays just enough to make a living or they do not go beyond their limits to get a higher education to be able to make more money.
Abby Livingston Ms. Muir English 12 December 2022 Hopedale: a Utopian Society Imagine you live in a society where practical christianity is the only acceptable way of life. This was the way the Hopedale people lived. Hopedale was a utopian society located in Eastern Massachusetts.
Novels generally are filled with conflicting events that happen to characters and send them into struggles in order to find answers to these encounters. In this book, there are very little incidents like this. Frazier introduces the community to Burris and his group, arguing mostly with the unconvinced Castle about Walden Two’s qualities, and the members of the group occasionally talk with one another about their evaluation of the utopian community. The main conflict is between Frazier and the skeptical Castle, who disagree over the qualities of behavioral modification. The only other conflicts involve whether members of the group will return to the traditional world or choose to stay and live with Walden Two.
A utopian society is described as a society that is designed to be ideal and perfect for its citizens. The idea of this type of living has been used in many modern books and movies trying to determine how the future world will look like. Often a utopian society is created to have organization, peace, and to make all citizens happy. A utopian society can look many ways depending on one’s idea of the “perfect” order.
In fact, I would only categorize a society as being “free” if its citizens are able to disobey the government peacefully as a means to make their views known to the public. From the founding of this fine country, through the civil rights movements, up to modern day politics and every era in between, civil disobedience has made its presence and importance known to all. I truly believe that without the ability to stand up for your opinions, a society would devolve into a more restricted and eventually oppressive state. For as long as the government holds power over the lives of those which it governs, I understand it to be true that it is the obligation of the people to keep track of the government’s actions and to have the courage to speak out when they take issue with its
When it means to be free, it means you have the power to make decisions that influence good, to not have an opposing force telling you that you can’t make that decision. The ability to make your own decisions, to learn and grow from them is a power no one should take from a person. In Harrison Bergeron it shows that the government doesn’t allow you to make a choice for yourself, they downgrade citizens to the point where they don't have the ability to make their own choices, they control their citizens by using handicaps, and different items to conceal the attractiveness of different people, for everyone to feel equal. “They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else.
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.
The Perfect Place The society Lowry depicts in The Giver is a utopian society; a perfect world as envisioned by its creators. It has removed fear, pain, famine, illness, conflict, and hatred, all things that most of people would like to eliminate in today’s society. In this utopian community, major problems are rare, only minor problems such as scraping your knee would happen. Even when this would happen there would be medications sent to them.
Throughout Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the individual soon realizes the Utopian society created in the novel. The reader notices that the people in the novel do not think for themselves and that they conform to the society created for them by an individual known as “Ford”. Neil Postman’s argument is very accurate in this sense. It is true that Aldous Huxley “was trying to tell us that what the afflicted people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” From being created in a Hatchery center, to consuming soma to prevent one from thinking and having feelings, the people in Brave New World were not their own person,
Perfection in a Society The term “dystopia” derives directly from the word utopian, which first was first noted to have appeared in the year 1516 in Thomas Mores well-known work Utopia (Xiaolan). The word utopia itself refers to a society that is typically set in a distant future and is implied to be the ideal or perfect world for all people in the world to live in. (Xiaolan) On the other hand, the word dystopia is said to be the opposite of utopian, meaning that while it’s still set in a distant future, it is the darker version of society that has begun to crumble at the seams due to the strict regulation of the world.
Thomas More said “For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect - which I don't expect them to be for quite a number of years!” In More’s Utopia, everything is to be perfect with no economic or political problems as it did in England. The perfect society is full of equality and unity, gender roles for each sex and the humanism of it all. Every man, woman and child had a job to do in Utopia, no one was free to not work.
Throughout Utopia, Thomas More’s opinion regarding the relationship between humankind and animals was prevalent through Hythloday’s perspective. Particularly, this correlation was seen in instances surrounding war, and crimes. Although humans were seen as the superior, more intelligent animal, More believed that humans often reverted back to and were considered animals when they gave into their vices (More). For example, in Utopia, Hythloday brought up his view in regards to punishment for crimes.
In discussion about belief system for our utopian society, water is what our religion based around because water is one of the most important part for our daily life. So the image of a female “Water Goddess” was what we came up with, who the only one was running our society, also known as our Queen in our monarchy system. She does a lot to change her territories, political system. She will be a ceremonial head of the community, also a head of government system, functioning as an absolute ruler and responsible for her people’s protections. She could make the laws, decide when and where to fight for her society and even decide on the life or death of somebody if someone broke the laws or got punished.
Imaging living in your own personal dreamworld that is only unique to you. A place where your imperfections can be somebodys perfections in the eyes of the right beholder a world that is created purely from perfection. This world is called Utopia which is idolized by many dreamers because each individual has the ability to create their own perfect fantasy world that is only unique to themselves. Bending and twisting the world to your liking has its perks like having the world's best economy or healthcare system utopia is the most desired place everyone fantasize to live in. Whether its having the opportunity to leave your old boring life for a better one or it appear in a common dream that you think of when you are sleeping at night.
