Utopia is a novel that belongs to the science fiction genre, written in 2008 by Ahmad Khaled Towfik, an Egyptian doctor and writer. The novel is about an imaginary ideal place that predicts the near future of 2020 after the end of petroleum economy in Cairo, Egypt. The author divides the country into two social classes; concentrating mainly on the rich and the poor, while omitting the middle class completely. The rich utopian side as depicted in the novel, is where people live in a luxurious abundance; a place filled with servants and supreme comfort. Utopians barely work six hours a day and mostly depend on the wealth of their parents, consume drugs excessively and have aggressive sexual desires and practices. The poor dystopian side on the
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A number of studies have shown how utopia is not as imaginative and happy as it was portrayed in the original myth of Thomas More. More concentrated his Utopia on the best commonwealth; where the attempts to define an ideal society was explored in a broad array of the elements that constitute any societal economic, legal, judicial, military, familial, and religious structures, all of which More envisioned as closely regulated by the government. Building on that, the result of this ideal place is supposed to be ultimate happiness, however, in September 2014, Kylie Millwee compared between utopia and dystopia, justifying happiness as one of the vital characteristics of utopia, however, it is oriented to how the author perceives happiness. Thus, utopia has a controversial and unstable interpretation and with the focus set on the commonwealth, the poor are victims of this controversy. Narrowing it down to Ahmad Towfik’s Utopia, the protagonist who is a utopian aristocrat suffers from severe depression and desolation throughout the whole novel “insert quote” which are the same symptoms appearing on the antagonist Gabber who lives outside utopia, in other words,
A number of studies have shown how utopia is not as imaginative and happy as it was portrayed in the original myth of Thomas More. More concentrated his Utopia on the best commonwealth; where the attempts to define an ideal society was explored in a broad array of the elements that constitute any societal economic, legal, judicial, military, familial, and religious structures, all of which More envisioned as closely regulated by the government. Building on that, the result of this ideal place is supposed to be ultimate happiness, however, in September 2014, Kylie Millwee compared between utopia and dystopia, justifying happiness as one of the vital characteristics of utopia, however, it is oriented to how the author perceives happiness. Thus, utopia has a controversial and unstable interpretation and with the focus set on the commonwealth, the poor are victims of this controversy. Narrowing it down to Ahmad Towfik’s Utopia, the protagonist who is a utopian aristocrat suffers from severe depression and desolation throughout the whole novel “insert quote” which are the same symptoms appearing on the antagonist Gabber who lives outside utopia, in other words,