Throughout the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy writes the perfect rebuttal to the idea of a utopian society. The story focuses on the relationship between a father and son, and uses this relationship to show that love is worth living in even the worst situations imaginable. The world in The Road is a violent, chaotic, and extremely grim; however, the love between the boy and his father manages to shine through. Compared to utopian societies like the World State in Brave New World, where everyone is happy and free of all things bad in life, the world in The Road has every pain and struggle someone could think of. So if someone had to pick which society is better, it would be pretty easy to say the utopia seems like the nicer place to live.
