Utopia

amount of power they have. In the novel 1984, the people of Oceania believe they live in an ideally perfect community through the government’s use of propaganda which is used to control their actions and thoughts. This type of ruler ship describes a utopia, which is an ideal state that is perceived to be perfect (Sreenivasan 1). However, the dehumanized world the citizens of Oceania live in an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible, which defines a dystopia…

because that would be average. Avergae is boring. Utopias are not possible for society because there would always be fear within people, people will have inequality,and everyone has different thoughts and emotions.These factors affect us becoming a utopian society. There will always be fear in people even when everyone is equal. You can’t take the fear out of someone because it is impossible. In this book it shows them trying to become a utopia society,but they are far away from a…

the same life doing the same thing and having everything easily handed to them. After Jonas was assigned as the receiver, he eventually realized the reality of what was going on around him. The community he lived in, which could be referred to as a utopia, quickly turned into a dystopia where all feelings were to be suppressed and where everyone had to follow strict rules. Family, children, and feelings are three big differences between Jonas’s society and today's. To begin with, family is…

Utopia: an imagined place or state of thing in which everything is perfect. Except in this novel, they are living it. Jonas’s community names themselves a utopia. No color, love, or war. However, the most important thing they are missing is memories from the past. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that joyful, sorrowful, and painful memories are all very important. Joyful memories are very important. They give us a positive outlook on life. Joyful memories are the first ones…

Tramel Raggs Runaway: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dystopian Fantasy There were many possible directions to take with this project and in light of the recent ongoing battles with mental health and depression my subject has endured, I have decided to dedicate this research to one of the introspective and controversial artists of our time, Kanye West. West is a critically acclaimed, Grammy winning hip-hop musician known for his breakthrough developments in sound, ranging from his…

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…

Thomas More wrote about the first utopian world, a word stemmed from the Greek words ‘ou-topos’ and ‘eu-topos’. The word literally translates to ‘no-place’. This leads me on to my first matter: Each and every one of us has our own inimitable idea of a utopia and not everyone can be satisfied. For example, when Sir Thomas Moore…

Dystopian and post apocalyptic novels have become popular amongst all age groups; but are the books just harmless entertaining literature, or are they warnings of the future? Many forms of media have covered the idea of a utopia ripped to shreds and brought down to an anti utopia; books, movies, and television shows all have had some form of dystopian feel. Even children movies, the Lorax and Wall E, dance around anti utopian themes. The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver, The Road, The Lorax,…

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…

The ‘thinking allowed’ sociological podcasts of Laurie Taylor convince me I am not wasting time. Or the music I listen to offers me an escape method to an era I did not live through, but view with an artificial dreamlike longing and nostalgia. The utopia of 1970s Glam Rock offsets the dystopia of being climbed over by men who smell of alcohol and jabbed in the back with oversized backpacks on buses which never seem to be able to adhere to the timetable. When taking a phenomenological stance in…