The Opinion Of A Perfect Society In Kermit's 'Rainbow Connection'

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Imagine you were in a perfect world where everything is perfect. But here's the thing you're in the real world where we can only imagine perfect worlds. The song "Rainbow Connection" was about the rainbow connection and if we’ll find it, and the opinion-editorial “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” was about what perfection is and how we’ll never reach it as a group. Both "Rainbow Connection" and “TED Talk Opinion Editorial” deal with the TOPIC that a perfect society is impossible to create, but they do so in different ways.

To begin, the song “Rainbow Connection” is entertaining the reader about how a perfect society is impossible to create by metaphor and explanation. First, the song discussed a voice that alludes to sirenes “Is this the sweet sound that called young sailors”(line 28-29). This show that Kermit is talking about sirens and
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They sing songs that trick you into thinking something while something else is happening. This happens in many utopias because the leader is easily corrupted and trick the people think their world is perfect. The author is entertaining the reader about how a perfect society is impossible to create with metaphors. Kermit is comparing the sirens to the voices in his head and the voices in his head are like most leaders in a utopia and how they fill your head with lie and hope. Next, the song mentioned how not every wish would be answered when wish. “Who said that every wish Would be heard and answered When wished on the morning star. Somebody thought of that And someone believed it And look what it's done so far,”(line 12-17). This shows the perfect world doesn't exist because a utopia is just a story that people

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