What Is The Ideal Utopia

Whereas in “The Veldt”, the children Peter and Wendy had actually (although indirectly) killed their parents with the help of a futuristic technological invention - the “nursery.” The nursery was an “all dimensional superreactionary, super sensitive color film” room that had “mental tape film behind glass screens.” It was first introduced with it “imitating” an African veldt for the children’s parents George and Lydia. After witnessing the too realistic veldt, the parents had begun to consider locking the nursery up in fear. Contrarily enough, the children had not feared the nursery like their parents had; instead, they had viewed the nursery as their “second parents.” A plausible enough concept, considering that the children had spent more …show more content…
In the story, the city Omelas had just about everything seemingly “perfect” about it - the ideal utopia where nothing could go wrong. Regardless of the eternal joy of the city and its citizens, the happiness, predictably, had come only with a consequence. The single consequence was that of in a room with one locked door, and no windows, a child would sit. The child was no ordinary child - instead it bore all the despair, unhappiness, and “abominable misery” to sustain the citizens’ “perfect” life, for nothing could ever be completely perfect. The citizens would all know of this person, too, and some would be satisfied with just simply knowing that it - the child - was there, whilst others would choose to look at the child themselves. As expected, the ones that would visit would be outraged. But eventually, they would forget - and in an effort to maintain their happiness to satisfy themselves, even while knowing perfectly well that somebody else was suffering at the expense of their happiness - they would merely accept that fact, even when they knew that it was wrong. To satisfy themself, they would gladly take away from another person only to be able to maintain their own …show more content…
The corruption of man shows this to be true, as well as how the want to maintain a Utopian society could also potentially lead Mankind into madness. Additionally, one of Mankind’s many desires is to achieve satisfaction for himself. Overall, all of these main ideas correlate with one another - Jack from Lord of the Flies had been corrupted from trying to maintain his own satisfaction; citizens from the city Omelas had demonstrated their corrupt nature in their choice of not speaking out against what was wrong; Animal Farm had emphasized how absolute power had corrupted all; and finally, “The Veldt” had illustrated the children’s sadistic nature in their way of trying to maintain their “Utopian” world. “Utopia: The Search for a Perfect Society” had illustrated what the ideal Utopian society was like, too. At the end of the day, however, Mankind can still learn from his or other’s mistakes even despite his own