Evaluating Utopia As seen through Thomas More’s depiction of Utopia, he views it as a perfect society that has no complications and everyone in the society is content with his or her life. Although, a dystopia typically derives from a once thought utopic society. Like seen in George Orwell’s 1984, while these two texts are different, they have similarities in the theme of utopia verse dystopia. In Orwell’s famous novel, it seemed like everything in the world created and managed by the government is ideal however, the lack of individuality like in the society of Utopia creates a false sense of happiness; it actually creates misery and unrest within the people of the society. This generates a contrast between what is utopic and not utopic proving,
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There are rules that need to be followed in every event of the people’s daily lives. For instance, when discussing the household and how the society of Utopia regulates the number of adults in household. He further discusses if a city becomes overpopulated,
“Likewise if a city has too many people, the extra persons serve to make up a shortage of population in other cities. And if the population throughout the entire island exceeds the quota, they enroll citizens out of every city and plant a colony under their own laws on the mainland near them” (49).
While Hythloday assures the reader that is a natural and normal occurrence, imagine being uprooted from your friends and family to move to a new place. As natural as Hythloday makes it appear to seem, it is not. Although this makes a flawless civilization from an outside perspective, it is fallible once living within the boundaries that are preset for you. Also, there is no individuality within the system; people cannot think for themselves instead there are rules and known laws set so you do not have to think, but just to act. From this example of people being removed from a city because it is overpopulated by the standards of civilization to a new city lends itself to attest that this society is, in fact not
There are rules that need to be followed in every event of the people’s daily lives. For instance, when discussing the household and how the society of Utopia regulates the number of adults in household. He further discusses if a city becomes overpopulated,
“Likewise if a city has too many people, the extra persons serve to make up a shortage of population in other cities. And if the population throughout the entire island exceeds the quota, they enroll citizens out of every city and plant a colony under their own laws on the mainland near them” (49).
While Hythloday assures the reader that is a natural and normal occurrence, imagine being uprooted from your friends and family to move to a new place. As natural as Hythloday makes it appear to seem, it is not. Although this makes a flawless civilization from an outside perspective, it is fallible once living within the boundaries that are preset for you. Also, there is no individuality within the system; people cannot think for themselves instead there are rules and known laws set so you do not have to think, but just to act. From this example of people being removed from a city because it is overpopulated by the standards of civilization to a new city lends itself to attest that this society is, in fact not