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Does a perfect world exist? It is the idea that when creating this utopia everyone will be happy, equal, understanding of each other. Often in the attempt to make this dream like utopia often becomes a dystopia. This futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societies are controlled and make it seem like a perfect world, but what do these dystopian worlds show us? In his text “Beautiful Monsters” , Eric Puncher depicts of a world where adults are casted out of society . A world where Children live forever and control society. It’s the conflict of the Perennials and the senescent that shows Puncher 's political argument. Pruncher’s argument is people often classify people and reject them from society through the false values that have been implemented in their society. While in Neil Gaiman 's and Bryan Talbot’s comic strip, “From Homogenous to Honey”, they depict a world where a masked assailant completely erases the homosexual narrative from history. By destroying these narratives, he is carrying out his agenda, and creating a dystopian society where everyone’s narrative is the same. Gaiman’s argument is that a dystopian society strips culture of its individuality, which leads to a lack of independent thinking, this in turn causes individuals to lose themselves. Therefore making everyone the same. This imperfect world clearly has a negative effect on the citizens. But through the authors dystopian worlds who was able to use it more successfully to create a

Being different is okay. But do our societies accept these differences? Not only does the rejection of differences happen today, but has for the past many years. As we all know, in Waknuk, people are devoted to the True Image of Man, which isolates David from not just his community but also his family. The Waknukians consider mutants a threat, as they represent the devil in humans. As the Inspector had stated, “The Devil sends Deviations among us to weaken us and tempt us away from Purity. Sometimes he is clever enough to make a near-perfect imitation, so we have to always be on the look-out for the mistake he has made” (55). Furthermore, David has to hide his true self and he must live in fear, first for himself and Sophie, and then for Petra and the rest of the group. Besides his mutation being a challenge of his it also becomes dangerous

Leaders in totalitarian societies find it easier to prevent children from developing certain characteristics that they could find potentially dangerous. In the novel, two adults go to the Palace of Mating and nine months later, a child arrives and is directly sent to the House of Infants. This living arrangement limits the opportunity of the children to develop characteristics that differentiate them between their brothers. In every house that Equality has lived in, each house has had the same interior. At the end of the day, Equality and his brothers go to bed and sleep until the bell rings in the house where “the sleeping walls are white and clean and bare of all things” (Rand 28). The leaders keep the houses plain to prevent their people

Another predominate lesson in the novel is, how change is possible, but quite difficult to become accustomed to. David proves this point in a conversation he shares with Uncle Axel. Since David was raised in a society where change was not an option, but instead it was mandatory for the people of Waknuk to move towards Gods true image and move away from all deviations. David and many others had a hard time going against their way of living. David admits that he is reluctant to change saying, “Moreover, I was reluctant to admit the flaw in the tidy, familiar orthodoxy I had been taught (pg 64). Similarly, Waknuk is against change and always resisted when change was an option. David reveals that change is quite difficult to become accustomed to when he states, “The place may have been called Waknuk then, anyways, Waknuk it had become; an orderly, law-abiding, God- respecting community of some hundred scattered holding, large and small” (pg 17). This shows that their town, Waknuk, had never become anything different through-out many years. Also Joseph Strorm was a very strict and rigid man who unfortunately was at a point where he and many others who lived in Waknuk were brain washed with the Bible, and Nicholson’s Repentances. Therefore change was a possible option but hard to go forward with it. In this novel it therefore teaches us how change is possible, but overall very hard to do.

Last similarity between the book’s society and our society back then is the killing. Long-time back in our society, blacks were discriminated and some were even killed just because of their skin colour. The KKK was the biggest discriminator and killer of minorities, they were bad people. In the book, people of Waknuk were similar to the KKK because they basically killed mutants who were minorities just because they were different. The KKK had their own reasons for killing the minorities and so did the people of Waknuk. The Waknuk’s reason is that “The devil is the father of deviations (also known as mutants)” (p.18) and so that was a good enough reason to kill the mutants.

Discrimination in the novel is mostly obvious from Joseph Strorm, who is ironically the father of a deviant, David Strorm. He is the strictest devout of his religion in Waknuk and being the heir of Waknuk, he bears the responsibility to keep the society deviation-free. He does so by discriminating against deviants, like the society, and punishing them for being born ‘wrong’. His devotion to God and the ‘Definition of Man’ can be seen when he hit his son, David for wishing he had a third hand by mistake. He is sensitive to any form of deviation and punishes them harshly but he does admit that God is merciful, as seen from ‘God, in His mercy, may yet grant you (forgiveness)’. This is ironic as Joseph, being a devout, should be following God’s footsteps and be merciful in his actions too but he is willing to kill and punish people instead, contradicting his religion. His intolerance of deviations led him to discriminate against them, as can be seen from how he refused to help Aunt Harriet and humiliated her instead when she came begging for help to save her innocent deviant child. Joseph had also discriminated against the great horses unsuccessfully as the government had approved of them and there

In the Brave New World, the people can not live their life to the fullest. One way they are limited is that they are predestined at birth. “We also predestined and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” (Huxley 13). No one is allowed to grow beyond what the government decides is their rank. There is no competition among people and no one is trying

The people of Waknuk do not utilize the advantages of permitting deviations and blasphemies to be a part of the society, consequently this decision troubles the society. First, the society does not let deviations that are beneficial to the society live amongst them. When Uncle

Female characters are influential in John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids. In the novel, three women are of paramount importance in comparison to all others in shaping David’s views and opinions: Sophie, the Sealand woman, and Aunt Harriet. In the society of Waknuk, individuals exhibit prejudice repeatedly throughout the novel through their own blinkered treatment of deviations. David Strorm’s, a twelve-year-old boy whose parents brought him up in such lifestyle, interactions with those three women throughout the novel sways him to have second thoughts about it. Their dealings with David each have a particular impact on his life. Sophie allows for doubt to enter David’s life for the first time; the Sealand woman expands his views and prompts him to consider other beliefs different from those of his society; and Aunt Harriet makes him more conscious of his society’s despicable activities and more attentive to it. In John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, Sophie, the Sealand woman, and Aunt Harriet are instrumental in influencing David’s outlook on society.

Everyone is born with a purpose, and some may be different than others. However in society, change is a negative thing. Those who are different are often tormented because of their appearance or personality. People with special needs breathe and feel things just like those who are born nondisabled. A random person may judge because there’s a sign of change in the environment, which creates a negative effect on those who are concluded. Differences shouldn’t modify the main qualities of a human just because of how others treat him or her. People with special needs are discriminated because of their lack of abilities, their label, and because of how they’re treated.

When reading the novel it is clear that Axel identifies with the text's criticisms of intolerance. Axel disagrees with the intolerance toward things different from the normal, as he himself is not physically the same as others in Waknuk. Axel Morton however is not a deviant because his abnormality was obtained after birth in a sailing accident. "He was standing in the customary way, with much of his weight upon the thick stick he used because his leg had been wrongly set at sea". This quote reveals Axel Morton's difference from the norm, and although it is not a huge variation, he still had to cope with that difference, and his inability to perform certain tasks that others could do. Although this difference from the norm was not deviational, he was still able to sympathise with true deviants, as he knew what it was like to be different to others around him. His difference form the norm was not the only reason for which he sympathised with deviants, but his knowledge also of other places and people, allowed him to have an open mind about certain viewpoints, which others did

One major distortion in Brave New World is the prevention of individualism. In order to live in a Utopia, a person cannot be an individual. Huxley makes this clear from the first page of the novel, revealing the World State’s motto of “Community, Identity, Stability.” Conformity is what this society strives for. Individuals cannot make up a community, which is why these people are made identical in many ways. From the beginning, the identical fetuses are bred solely to serve the community. They lack personal identity in order to sustain the stability of their society. Huxley uses this distortion to allude

Will a perfect world ever exist? The ideology behind the creation of a utopia is so that its inhabitants will be content, and have an equal understanding of one another. However, in the attempt to create this dreamlike utopia, it becomes susceptible to becoming a dystopia because individuality is destroyed in the hopes of creating unity.This futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societies are controlled and make it seem like a perfect world, but what do these dystopian worlds show us? In his text “Beautiful Monsters,” Eric Puchner depicts a world where adults are cast out of society. A world where children live forever and control society. It’s the conflict of the Perennials and the Senescent that shows Puncher 's political argument. Puchner’s argument is people often classify people and reject them from society through the false values that have been implemented in their society. While in Neil Gaiman 's and Bryan Talbot’s comic strip, “From Homogenous to Honey,” they depict the world where a masked assailant completely erases the homosexual narrative of history. By destroying these narratives, he is carrying out his agenda, and creating a dystopian society where everyone’s narrative is the same. Gaiman and Talbot’s argument speaks on if society were to strip away all homosexual cultural influences. They bring the conclusion of individuality being attacked leading to a lack of independent thinking, this, in turn, causes individuals to lose themselves. This

Each individual has distinguishing characteristics that can either separate them from the majority or can place them in the majority. What may seem different may actually be very similar to another. As a human in society, one must adapt to social norms or be looked at as an outcast because within the society we live in there is a certain criteria that has already been created and has been passed from generations to generation where if one doesn’t adhere to this standard they are then portrayed as indifferent. Although an individual may try to adapt to social norms, they will always be targeted for normality not being natural to them because being normal is supposed to be in an individual from their surroundings. Society forgets that each individual

I tried to remember at what time period people in the United States were likely to fall in such status, or maybe it about the scene in the future? My doubts end as I understood that a disease strikes the world, and the everything happens in the story becomes “more reasonable” when I realize that people lose their ability of communicating with language. The author’s dissatisfaction of people’s lack of communication also brings accordance with my understanding to the story. The lack of communication is the origin of lots of miserables in our lives. The world of disorder with people having only hate has often been a nightmare to me, but like the author mentions in the afterwords, the story helps me get over some of those fears. The climax of the story comes at the end of the story as the woman talks to the children with language and started to care for other. The humanity of her is finally revealed, and this brings an ascending ending to the