essentially strove for "sameness," in which everyone and everything had to be the same and equal. However, once the main character Jonas becomes uneasy with this notion, he soon begins to question the need for an all equal society and exclaimed,”If everything 's the same, then there aren 't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”(Lowry 98) His statement subtly creates an idea that something is wrong with this "perfect world." This utopian idea has definitely aroused a lot of questions debating on whether or not having a perfect society would truly be perfect, if achievable. Though some answer yes, many answer no. This simply stems from the fact that too many people wouldn 't agree with a structured type settlement
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While this is true, it still doesn 't deny the fact that science fiction withholds elements of utopia within them. In retrospect, all science fiction works stem from a sense of creating a better world thus yielding again utopian values. One such example of an imagined world and it’s flaws would be that portrayed in the novel, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In this novel, human embryos are created and conditioned to belong to one of the five social groups, each group having different characteristics, but one being more supreme over the other. More so than ever this novel indirectly parallels the imagined world to our world. Often times people are linked in a way that once again separates them from others. With this thought of separation in mind, this novel fails to create a more unified society seen in a utopian setting, but rather seemingly a more realistic view of society as it is now. In this novel, characters become upset with the inability to express themselves, just as those in The Giver. The protagonist in the novel, John states,”I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.” (Huxley 215) This again questions the belief if utopia is truly what we need as a society if we can not express ourselves. In conclusion, science fiction and utopia are indeed closely related genres. The distinction involves why science fiction writing takes place. Most science fiction writers create a story to reveal a better world or indiscreetly face real life problems. With these concepts, utopia is the root. From this root, science fiction then incorporates components of technology to create a more efficient, unrefined, and perfect
While this is true, it still doesn 't deny the fact that science fiction withholds elements of utopia within them. In retrospect, all science fiction works stem from a sense of creating a better world thus yielding again utopian values. One such example of an imagined world and it’s flaws would be that portrayed in the novel, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In this novel, human embryos are created and conditioned to belong to one of the five social groups, each group having different characteristics, but one being more supreme over the other. More so than ever this novel indirectly parallels the imagined world to our world. Often times people are linked in a way that once again separates them from others. With this thought of separation in mind, this novel fails to create a more unified society seen in a utopian setting, but rather seemingly a more realistic view of society as it is now. In this novel, characters become upset with the inability to express themselves, just as those in The Giver. The protagonist in the novel, John states,”I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.” (Huxley 215) This again questions the belief if utopia is truly what we need as a society if we can not express ourselves. In conclusion, science fiction and utopia are indeed closely related genres. The distinction involves why science fiction writing takes place. Most science fiction writers create a story to reveal a better world or indiscreetly face real life problems. With these concepts, utopia is the root. From this root, science fiction then incorporates components of technology to create a more efficient, unrefined, and perfect