Food is distributed fairly and meals are shared. The people worked on farms and learned a useful trade such as weaving or carpentry. They work days were 6 hours and they shared the work load equally. The only citizens exempted from manual labor are those who show intellectual promises and they study to become priest who could be male or female. The priest conducted services, educate the children act as moral and spiritual guides. Utopians spend their free time to learning and exploring in physical activies such as sports and art.
2.What are the primary ideals that the utopia or dystopia is designed to achieve ? One of the primary ideas was to strived to get rid of difference and materialism through strict uniform and inhuman authorianism. One of biggest ideals I noticed was communitarism and family was very important in utopia. Social order was another primary ideal because it lead to a more productive society and this was a way to make sure that people had a role in the family. I believe the biggest idea was equality and this is why all resources included work was distributed out evenly. The primary goal was …show more content…
I believe that the idea that everyone sharing resources and that the people understood that their purpose was to contribute to the land and not to own it was the most appealing and my reasoning for this is that by all resources being shared equally gets rid of personal greedy and allows for a more productive society. I loved that people could distinguish between true pleasure, which arises from care of the mind and body and false pleasure in status and appearance. The people had no interest in material status but rather the interest in their inner joy and commitment to their families and role in utopia. I appreciated that education was valued and everyone shared knowledge. I thought it was appealing that the wise elders taught the children. I believe this is something that we need because parents are having children at much younger ages and children lack appropriate role models and like they say wise comes with age and experience and this is why I believe that the elders have a significant role in the youth. I do not like that punishment had to exist for utopia communal society to succeed. I do not believe that it 's ideal because its people are perfect because its law compels citizen to behave a certain way despite their inherent human feelings. Utopia was the ideal of perfect but the utopians people were not perfect