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Aspects Of Utopia And Dystopia In The New World

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The world which people survive on has many intrications, wars, corruption and other terrible cases. These cases create dystopian elements. People are affected these cases and they made evil things intentionally or unintentionally. They create for themselves a worse world by themselves. Thus, some people need to transform these dystopian to utopian elements by dreaming the new world. People dream a better world. In this short story, the narrator has combined utopian and dystopian worlds. There are some parts of this short story which demonstrate us this combination. First of all is the part she is talking with the old man in the bus. In this part he is talking about a new rising continent and in the conversation between them, there are …show more content…

They try to live with candle lights. Darkness has two effects. Firstly, some people claims that darkness makes them more comfortable however the other effect of darkness is evil. It is known that darkness is mother of ugly things and most people feel suffocated because of it. Besides, it is the phobia for most people. Due to these reasons, she feels covered with darkness and bored. She creates a new world with the lights she and her husband see but the light they see is not from planets or stars. Actually, she looks for the light and she is happy with it. She wants to escape the world she lives so she dreams another world. Besides, she talks about lantern-creatures. As a connected this idea Anne Maxwell states “They come with their tiny lights. Le Guin's tale is also Utopian in its portrayal of the human imperative to imagine an alternative world to the present, in this case a world embodied by the strange, but beautiful creatures of the deep who inhabit the ancient, submerged city of Atlantis, and who are seen by her as humanity's salvation.”(Maxwell) She sees that world as an exit, an escape and actually we see how she turns dystopia into utopia. People want to follow the light. It is an instinctive emotion so she creates her new world with

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