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Unit 2 Essay The way of life described in the book, Utopia by Sir Thomas More, is very different than the way things are in this day and age. Gold and silver, marriage, and religion were the main selections that we had to read. It is hard to imagine some of the rules and way of life that occur in the book. Utopia is a very intriguing story that kept me interested the whole way through it. Gold and silver are not as much of a necessity to the Utopians as it is to their Ambassadors. The…

The Giver Since the beginning of time, humans have formed settlements in order to survive. Naturally the settlements have become more advanced and complex. Communities and settlements advanced as did society and the way people lived. The settlements became more organized with laws, forms of government have been created, and they even had leaders. As time passed, novels plotlines have advanced in this same way. An example would be Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver that takes place within a Utopia.…

A perfect world doesn’t exist, but humans keep trying to create them, and humans keep striving for the perfection that they cannot reach. Although this sounds pointless, creating a utopia can help bring to light the many problems that we still need to solve in the world today. Creating a utopia can also help reveal new ideas to implant into society, like Democracy. We use many ideas from utopias to make our world a better place and make it slightly closer to a utopia than it was yesterday. The…

needs. For this reason, society does not have to worry about the basic needs they would prioritize its energy to innovation and discovery. The geographic format of my utopian world does not matter because the technology and transportation would be much more advanced than today's technology. Moreover, laws would be created by a union that would be made up of one thousand logical and intelligent human beings. In contrast, criminals that break these laws would have to…

A perfect society: Long sought after, however, impossible to achieve. There have been many theories on a perfect society and how it will be a reality one day. This reality seems desirable but could never be accomplished without some people getting put down for this society to rise up. A utopia appears perfect but deep down has many fatal flaws that take away freedom and knowledge from the citizens. Our modern day society, even though far from perfect, gives us things a utopia can not. The…

There is no such thing as a Utopian society. Every Utopian society turns into a Dystopia. Utopian societies make people their worst which makes it a Dystopia. If there were to be an Utopian society, it would not last for very long. There can never be a Utopian Society that lasts very long, it will always turn into a Dystopia. Every Utopian Society turns into a Dystopian society. One Utopian society that turned into a Dystopian society is the society of Fahrenheit 451. This society tried to…

What You Don’t See In a utopian society, citizens can think freely also citizens embrace the world. But most utopian worlds turn into a dystopian world because in most utopian worlds become too perfect and people become to greedy and don't want to be like everybody else. One key piece of a utopia is equality and in both Pedestrian Ray Bradbury and in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. equality has created a dystopian world. In the pedestrian they tried to make it a Utopian society by…

remarks you find a voice that is criticizing the ways of 13th-14th century Catholic England. In the often not so subtle commentary of his writing, More tends side with the lower class, rebel against the Papacy, and disagrees with the…

be upheld? Sir Thomas More addresses this conjecture in Utopia, in which he discusses different failings of the normal world and compares these issues to the Utopians. More establishes a society that is governed by reason and logic to avoid the consequences of human failings. In the section dedicated to monetary values, More implements a new way of thinking about gold and silver. Punishments and rewards are addressed and the levels of punishment for different offenses. More also addresses the…

play, the Common Man plays Matthew, More’s steward. This is the character that the Common Man is best known for. Matthew’s opinion on More shifts from day to day. He readily sells out More, but quickly feels guilty upon hearing More’s affection for him. Matthew is willing to sell out More’s secrets, for the price of a bribe. Although he does have respect for More, his greed overcomes this. He says, ‘ What I can tell them is common knowledge! But now they’ve given money for it and everyone wants…