Utopia Essay

Ksandra Earle 10G In 2014 John Pilger released a documentary called Utopia. Utopia is about the treatment of Aboriginal people in remote communities; it compares the wealth of white Australia to the living conditions of the original landowners. The main purpose of the documentary is to get viewers to feel empathy for the Aboriginal people, shame for being a white Australian who ignores their issues, and anger towards the Australian government for not providing the assistance needed. Pilger uses…

The treatment of human happiness in Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents is comparable to that described in Thomas More’s Utopia. Freud’s basic assumption is that man could be naturally happy, but that civilization makes rules that suppress a man’s natural ability to be happy. More’s Utopia describes a fictional land whereby the forced perfection of man ensures the general health and welfare of man so that all people achieve a basic level of happiness, but that the Utopian society…

selfless leaders, equally valued citizens, and collaboration towards improvements that will benefit the whole community. Qualities such as these are often considered to be crucial aspects of the idea of a utopia, which is the unattainable idea of the perfect society. Due to the fact that utopias are impossible to achieve, many societies ultimately decline…

customs, and traditions, would make a society perfect, or a utopia. In the contrast, a dystopia would lack these characteristics, and even though it presents the illusion of a utopia, the society is under oppressive societal control in a futuristic, imagined universe. “Animal Farm,”an allegory written by George Orwell, is under mostly totalitarian control, and lacks the ability to be a utopia. Although “Animal Farm” appears to be a utopia to the outside…

(218). This is proof that Gulliver is entirely in shock at the new society he inhabits. Gulliver is so accustomed to his hellish European society that Houyhnhnmland appears to be a utopia. o Houyhnhnmland’s inhabitants are much less cruel to each other than the peoples of Europe. However, Houyhnhnmland is far from a utopia, because it contains the same issues as Europe, just on a less dramatic scale. o “He made me observe, that among the Houyhnhnms, the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray,…

The book, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is part of the genre of Utopian Literature. A utopia can best be defined as an imagined place in which everything is perfect. The first book of Utopian Literature is Sir Thomas More’s novel, Utopia. Before, Brave New World had been published, many novels were written about totalitarian societies and dystopias where everything is far from perfect. A utopia or dystopia can both be used interchangeably to describe Brave New World. In this futuristic…

Book report: Eric D Weitz a Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation Eric D Weitz’s a Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation focuses on four key genocides – the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and the Bosnian war. The topics discussed are very popular, particularly Nazi-Germany and Stalinist Russia, which is worth noting as someone well-read in the topic may not gain any further knowledge from this. A Dean at the City College of New York, who has previously written books on…

Machiavelli’s The Prince and Thomas More’ Utopia. In the way authors of this novels show how they see the government like if they controlled everything and anything and who has more power Gods or the government like in Antigone and 1984. Power is the control over something or someone. Many people have different views on who should have power? The governmental law or the higher power.There are many ways to lose or gain power the way people lose them while others gain…

many texts, with slaves being presented to the reader in a variety of ways. Both Thomas More in his Utopia and Aphra Behn in her Oroonoko include slavery as an ongoing theme, but address it differently. More seems to have a different definition for slavery, while Behn presents slavery as we know it but challenges the legitimacy and morals of it. While slavery is seen as a form of justice in Utopia in order to keep society together, it is a seen an unjust practice in Oronooko. This difference…

bureaucratic trip to Belgium, a chance to visit his close friend Peter Giles develops after discussions at Bruges are stalled. Peter then introduces the cryptic character Raphael Hythloday that becomes a main focal point throughout Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. Apparently, Raphael joined the last three of the four voyages made by the famed Amerigo Vespucci to the New World. Raphael was keen to explore the world and was described by Peter to be like “Ulysses, or rather Plato”, one characterized by…