According to Webster Dictionary a Utopian Society, means an impossibly ideal society or way of life. To achieve this society people have to be happy no matter what happens, but they cannot be happy if they fear the alternative to their society. In Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury, Harrison Bergeron by: Kurt Vonnegut and The Lottery by: Shirley Jackson, the society worked so hard to eliminate fear, Instead of achieving this they created a society where people were silenced, controlled, lost their individuality and had no opinions or thoughts of their own. People lost a sense of worth; making them cower into themselves and miss something, they could never quite place. The more they tried to create an ideal society the more they created a fearful
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People in this society worked hard at keeping their society ideal, but they ended up creating a society full of lies and fear. Young women and men lied about their strength, intelligence and their beauty. They were being lied to about the truth. ”A buzzer [would sound] in [people’s] heads. [Their] thoughts [would flee] in panic,” (Vonnegut, 8) they would forget what they were previously doing or forget harmful information. Instead of having a calm and unthinking mind state internally applied to people’s bodies, they were being forced externally onto them by devices. By creating what the government believed to be an ideal society, they created one where people were controlled and did not have any freedom to be …show more content…
With a society filled with fear how is anyone supposed to be happy? The society fears that they will revert to the dark ages if the lottery were to stop, people fear if they sit out the lottery they will be rejected by society and they fear what they do not know. People feel there is not enough time between lotteries and they, “Wished they would hurry,” (Jackson, 230) with the drawings. Fear does not equate to happiness. The fear of the unknown allows the society to follow a tradition they do not know the origin of. “Some places have already quit lotteries,” (Jackson, 230), the problem with that is people believe it is nothing but trouble to quit them, as a result of their fear of what could happen if it were to stop and what would happen to their society. It causes people to cower behind society and let it control
People in this society worked hard at keeping their society ideal, but they ended up creating a society full of lies and fear. Young women and men lied about their strength, intelligence and their beauty. They were being lied to about the truth. ”A buzzer [would sound] in [people’s] heads. [Their] thoughts [would flee] in panic,” (Vonnegut, 8) they would forget what they were previously doing or forget harmful information. Instead of having a calm and unthinking mind state internally applied to people’s bodies, they were being forced externally onto them by devices. By creating what the government believed to be an ideal society, they created one where people were controlled and did not have any freedom to be …show more content…
With a society filled with fear how is anyone supposed to be happy? The society fears that they will revert to the dark ages if the lottery were to stop, people fear if they sit out the lottery they will be rejected by society and they fear what they do not know. People feel there is not enough time between lotteries and they, “Wished they would hurry,” (Jackson, 230) with the drawings. Fear does not equate to happiness. The fear of the unknown allows the society to follow a tradition they do not know the origin of. “Some places have already quit lotteries,” (Jackson, 230), the problem with that is people believe it is nothing but trouble to quit them, as a result of their fear of what could happen if it were to stop and what would happen to their society. It causes people to cower behind society and let it control