Sigh No More

others will take more than they need, and this fear is what drives these people to act out of selfishness in order to possess more than others around them. However, in Utopia, that fear does not exist because everyone rejoices in the common good, rather than in personal success. In a Utopian’s mind, personal success is only measured by how successful the community is. The effectiveness of the Utopian society stems from the lack of pride, which is the vice that leads to all of the…

Evaluating Utopia As seen through Thomas More’s depiction of Utopia, he views it as a perfect society that has no complications and everyone in the society is content with his or her life. Although, a dystopia typically derives from a once thought utopic society. Like seen in George Orwell’s 1984, while these two texts are different, they have similarities in the theme of utopia verse dystopia. In Orwell’s famous novel, it seemed like everything in the world created and managed by the…

throughout the play, for instance when he refused to help More while he was in jail, “‘I’d let him out if I could but I can’t. Not without taking up residence in there myself. And he’s in there already, so what’d be the point? You know the old adage? ‘Better a live rat than a dead lion,’ and that’s about it.” (127) The Common Man would never put someone else’s needs before his own, selfishly leaving More to a doomed fate. Despite how fair More treated him, when faced with a pay cut, he left with…

Fahrenheit 451 vs. Our Current Society Have you ever thought of a perfect society where everybody gets along? Well, a utopia doesn’t exist because everybody has different view and perspectives and soon the utopia turns into a dystopia. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, there was a perfect society where nobody really thought twice about things, until some people start to question the rules. Even though our two societies are completely different, we share many similarities such as how we spend time…

What is utopia? If you were to ask William Penn, his reply would consist of three words, “Green Country Towne”. In other words, a place of sparsely constructed homes along the countryside whose verdure surroundings render it invulnerable to fires (Vitiello, 9/23/2014). This idea of utopia is inherently subjective. It overlooks the classism that inhibits those who are not wealthy or part of the elite, and thus do not have the opportunity to live in such a place. Nonetheless, the attempt to…

in my community to have access to a higher education. Having free education will end repayment inequality. When a student begins to pay back their loans majority of their money is going straight to interest. It also enables graduates to contribute more to the economy. I sincerely believe in free…

to say that we are headed in the direction a utopian society, or something similar? Is our society and their society really any different? In the book Fahrenheit 451 society tries to get rid of emotions and individual desires to help people become more loyal to society and our society is on its way towards this.…

The speech was made memorable because it was delivered at the first Woman’s Rights Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848. The speech declared women’s grievances resulting from the discriminatory acts towards women. The speech was more powerful because it also gave eleven resolutions appealing that women also have the right to equality just as men on all aspects of their lives, including the right to vote. The Declaration of Sentiments addresses the importance of woman’s equality…

created this community for the employees of his company. Unfortunately, Pullman’s company began facing losses and he increased the rent of the community to account for the losses of the company. The members of the community began disliking Pullman more and more. This utopia slowly collapsed as…

Utopia is a book by author Sir Thomas More, where he describes this country where everything is supposedly perfect. The people that are responsible for creating Utopia attempted to make everybody happy in this fictitious society. The book has chapters that go over almost every aspect of the citizens lives. They include chapters like: Slavery, Marriage, Euthanasia, Philosophy, Common Property, War, and Religion. I will be analyzing the chapters of: Their Delight in Learning, Social Relations, and…