Chapter Summary: Utopian Society

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

Distributive Justice Robert Nozick From Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 149-182, with omissions. Copyright @ 1974 by Basic Books, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a subsidiary of Perseus Books Group, LLC. The minimal state is the most extensive state that can be justified. Any state more extensive violates people's rights. Yet many persons have put forth reasons purporting to justify a more extensive state. It is impossible within the compass of this book to examine all the reasons that have been put forth. Therefore, I shall focus upon those generally acknowledged to be most weighty and influential, to see precisely wherein they fail. In this chapter we consider the claim that a more extensive state is justified, because necessary

Both ‘Pleasantville’ directed by Gary ross and ‘The Giver’ written by Lois Lowry clearly demonstrate that a perfect society is impractical. No matter how hard you try, the issues that break down a society will only resurface and ruin the perfect society. A utopian society would not be possible to sustain because Each person has a different idea of a utopian society, People also must feel sad to feel happy, the people of a utopian society don’t have freedom and finally People in the book are deprived of privacy. These are just some of the reasons why a utopian society is unrealistic.

In my personal opinion, there is no feasible way to create a true utopia in a world of imperfect humans, but there are many improvements we can make to America today. Criminals will always break the laws that keep us safe and happy, greedy aristocrats will always try to amass more than their fair share of wealth, and corrupt politicians will always lie and cheat to further their own agendas, but the doesn’t mean we can’t make the world we live in better. A few of the areas that we can definitely improve in the most are education, career benefits, welfare, and criminal justice.

There are various places within the community, such as the House of Old, the Rehabilitation Centre, the Auditorium (where public events are held, such as the ceremony of twelves), and various family units, each consisting of two parents and two children, a boy and a girl. The adults work and the children go to school. In addition, there is an Annex, where the Giver/Receiver lives. Most importantly, there is also a place call ‘Elsewhere’. This is what the members of a particular community call anywhere that is beyond their community. At the very end of the story, Jonas escapes his community and makes it to a mysterious “Elsewhere”.

Would you like someone controlling you? What about your love life, would you want someone to control that too? Or how about living in a world where your feelings are not allowed to show? In this novel called “Brave New World”, the author establishes many ways in which the people with in the society are being controlled by the government and science. All who reads this novel will be able to identify the many different ways in which the Utopian society is being controlled. Throughout the novel, there are many different ways that the government and science are controlling the society, such as population growth, romance and marriage, and people’s identity.

Numerous societies may attempt to construct an ideal utopia, but very few are able to get close to achieving such an unattainable goal. A populace must strive to practice principles of excellent standards in order to come out on top in the face of other civilizations. Taking that into account, Anarres’ society in Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed is more utopian compared to the novels contrasting society of Urras and the modern World Sate in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World because it maximizes freedom and minimizes selfishness.

Utopia is the idea that every aspect of life is perfect. All utopian societies have unique psychological aspects or activities that allow them to be “perfect.” Brave New World is a utopian society with unique psychological aspects, starting with the absence of individuality to hypnopaedia to the lack of love. The psychological aspects of novel allow the society to exist in peace without any problems and are representative of many utopian societies. Hypnopaedia, the use of soma, and complete sexual freedom are three particular psychological aspects of the novel that allow the society to function in utopia.

A utopian society is fictional society in which everything from social standards and political ideas are done in such a way that leads everyone to live in a harmonious state. Russel Jacoby, a historian, noted two forms of utopias; “blueprint utopianism,” which more along the lines of a model or outline of a utopia in which a government could follow, this is the one Thomas Mores book is more likely to fall under, the other type is “iconoclastic utopianism,” is the one that is much more idealized and is more open ended (Greene). Everyone has their own idea of what their utopia would include, Thomas More appeared to have had one himself even writing a book about his own ideas of how he believed the world could be improved. The main problem with utopias though is how easy it is for them to turn into a dystopia due to everyone’s varying personalities and ideals, and Mores version is no exception.

Humans have grasped at the concept of "Utopia" for millennia. In his editorial for the September 1983 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, editor Isaac Asimov provided a concise history of utopian literature. According to Asimov, the history of utopian literature began with religious tales of past golden ages or future paradises. (Asimov gives the examples of the Genesis story of creation and expulsion from the Garden of Eden as an example of the first and the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, which contains the famous line "the lion shall lay down with the calf," as an example of the second.) Utopian literature was first presented in a more scientifically designed (as opposed to Edenic or messianic) form by Plato, with The

Thomas More’s, Utopia is one of the most politically and socially influential texts to date. His audience, which ranges from academic and social scholars to college students, all can gain a different understanding of the work and it’s meaning. In order to fully comprehend More’s message, one must have an appreciation for the time and culture in which he lived. After grasping historical concepts, one reads Utopia, not as just a volume recounting a fictitious island society, but rather as a critique on a time of corruption and reformation. Throughout the entire text, More’s personal views on the religion, politics, and economy of this turbulent time seep through the carefully plotted thread of this critical work.

Divided, a term commonly used to describe two sides at odds with each other. However, in this particular case, there is an entire country broken up into various warring groups. Unfortunately, this is but one of a great many problems this country is currently facing today. Thankfully, the next generation is full of brilliant ideas on how to change not just the country, but the whole world for the better. This is our Utopia.

We want to feel in control of our lives, and be independent people. We want to be our own person, and be original. What if we didn’t have the freedom to believe and feel what we wanted? Freedom and independence is something we take for granted a lot of the time. We are so used to being able to feel and believe what we want. We are lucky to live in a society where we are not controlled to feel and believe things we don’t want to. The goal of the utopian society was to control how people feel, what they believed in, and their place in society.

“The vision of one century is often the reality of the next…” (Nelson 108). Throughout time, great minds have constructed their own visions of utopia. Through the study of utopias, one finds that these “perfect” societies have many flaws. For example, most utopias tend to have an authoritarian nature (Manuel 3). Also, another obvious imperfection found in the majority of utopias is that of a faulty social class system (Thomas 94). But one must realized that the flaws found in utopian societies serve a specific purpose. These faults are used to indicate problems in contemporary society (Eurich 5, Targowski 1). Over the years, utopian societies have been beneficial in setting improved standards for society. By

The story Utopia, written by Thomas More, published in 1516, is a fact and fiction novel that entertains the use of storytelling to get several ideal points, which could be administered to modern day society, across. Thomas More, the author and main character of the novel meets with a friend Peter Giles. The fictional character Raphael Hythloday is introduced when More travels to Antwerp and his storytelling makes up most of the story. Thomas More’s unique art of writing has a direct and meaningful impact on the reader. More intended to provide information to the reader of the book, whether it be through the direct comprehension of the story or further research on topics presented in the novel. His overall goal in writing Utopia was to inform readers on how to improve society.