Comparish : Summary And Analysis Of Looking Backward 2000-1887

More’s Utopia may give off the stigma of males being the typical person in charge, but Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward switches that idea around. Julian West wakes from a deep sleep to find out his society has completely changed; Doctor Leete, who found West in his sleep, updates him on all the changes. At one point, West asks if female roles have made any changes; Leete tells him that their roles have evolved. Leete tells West: “…‘Our women, as well as our men, are members of the industrial army, and leave it only when maternal duties claim them. The result is that most women, at one time or another of their lives, serve industrially some five or ten or fifteen years, while those who have no children fill out the full term’” (Bellamy, 267). Women are now working and making their own decisions; they can still be mothers when they need to be. And if the woman does not want to get married, she doesn’t have to, whereas in Utopia, a woman or man was imprisoned

Throughout the novel, the “utopian” society changes human behavior so that individuals seek to consume items and services. This modification means that any individual that makes the goods or services purchased will be able to stay employed so that the society’s economy remains stable. However, reliance upon commodification stops any attempt at original

How does Larcom’s memoir helps us to understand some of the market revolution on the lives of ordinary Americans? Larcom’s family circumstances pushed her to paid employment in the textile mill at age eleven. She was forced to sacrifice her childhood to provide much needed income to her family. But it was not and couldn’t be, the right sort of life for a child. Therefore, Larcom’s memoir indicates that effect of the market revolution has some positive side shifting work from home to factory and gives a chance for women and girls to work on factory to get some income in order to fulfil their basic needs and their families. While, forcing childhood to provide much needed income for their families, not respecting

In the past, the nation’s government took the “laissez-faire” approach to dealing with the economy and/or free market affairs. The government intervened as little as possible, asserting the belief felt that if left alone, economic problems would be resolved without government interference. However, this approach was not guaranteed, and at times, the government had to put aside the “laissez-faire” approach of the past. The government had no other choice but to intervene in these instances to return balance to the economy and protect its citizens it served. The government changed both its approach and its size through programs initiated by the Industrial Revolution, New Deal programs during and following the Great Depression, and World

Today we are making more than we can use. Today our industrial society is congested; there are more workers than there is work, there is more capital than investment. We do not need more money- we need more circulation, more employment.” This quote from Albert J. Beveridge shows a problem in the economy in America. If the leaders of America during the rise of American Imperialism focused more on what is happening in their own country, instead of showing the world how large and powerful the navy and military is, which goes against almost every American ideal, then the United States may be more financially stable today. It is a shame that the problems we face today can lead back to the problems of the past. The problems of the past should make the leaders of the world today realize the next step in fixing the problem. The opposite has happened. The leaders today have to fix the problems that started in the past, which makes it hard for the government to progress away from American Imperialism. Instead of learning from the past the world is focused on fixing the problems that have occurred because of the past, and almost every incident past the 1920s have occurred as a result of American

For decades, Looking Backward has been an influential novel since it focuses on the idea of social reform. The novel’s publication was in 1888 during an era when most Americans were afraid of violence associated with the working class. Another relevant aspect that disgusted a majority of individuals in public was the idea that conspicuous consumption is only for the privileged minorities in the American society. Intense demonstrations commenced following the emergence of labor unions, as well as large trusts that became a central factor in the nation’s economy. Arguably, the author managed to make the novel extraordinarily popular among the middle-class by painting a portrait of Americans who behold the possibilities of a desirable future.

Have you ever wondered what a perfect world would be like? To you it could mean no more war, no more poverty, every person of every race and gender being treated exactly the same. However, to someone else their idea of a perfect world could be the complete opposite of what you would want. In Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the idea of a perfect world is not just an idea anymore, it becomes reality. Nevertheless, both books “perfect world” are completely different from one another. The theme of both books is to try and find that perfect world, and maintain it. While there are many may differences between the two, the underlying truth still remains the same.

During the late 19th and early 20th, there were many problems caused by the rapid urbanization and industrialization. In response, a group of individuals came together and their goal was to reform the United States. During this era people were dealing with problems such as poverty, the breakdown of democratic government, and the exploitation of labor. In addition, very limited group of people owned the majority of wealth of this country. This individuals were trying to reduce the long working hours, and as Zinn says: bring a remedy to changes that the industrialization was causing.(Zinn 354)

The book Looking Backward was written by Edward Bellamy and published in the year 1888. Bellamy started off his career as a journalist but then married and decided to devote his efforts to writing fiction novels. Looking Backward was published and Bellamy was famous. The book stirred around the country and had people imagining a world like the one Bellamy created in his book. The idea of a utopia as the one he describes is unbelievable. His book is what people, of even now in the twenty first century, wish the world could possible be like. However, Bellamy's world of reasoning and judging of people based on the inner beliefs was not what people of then or now do. Bellamy's book showed a world of rationality being

The American work ethic, he claims, has made a large free labor force, which in turn has made capitalism a very powerful force in our society. The post World War II surge in patriotism and

People have always wondered what the future will be like. Certainly Edward Bellamy did when he wrote the novel, Looking Backward (1888). Bellamy uses a man named Mr. West as the main character in this novel. He opens by telling who he is and what his social standing is. West is a young man, around the age of 30, and is fairly wealthy. At the beginning, he tells us about his fiancé, Edith, and the house he is having trouble building for her. The trouble comes from the fact that the workers keep going on strike due to financial reasons, which prolongs the completion of the house. The biggest hint to the end of the novel comes from when he tells the reader that he suffers from insomnia. West must be put

We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.” This statement in the article helped me to better understand this era because that while things were changing and progressing so rapidly in the way of industrialism that there was a need for someone to step in and say hang on a minute, there is more to life than making a dollar and we have to take care of what we have or it will all be

“After the experience of the trade crisis, of being at the mercy of economic forces, now came the experience of being at the mercy of political forces, which was almost worse, since you could get used to the former and somehow do something for yourself, but there was nothing you could do about the other.”

     After World War I, new technological improvements helped factories to produce higher quantities of goods using smaller amounts of employees. Fewer workers meant less money being redistributed to the consumers to purchase products. America didn’t have a necessity for this higher quantity of goods with less people

In 1895 H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine was published and dealt with the issues that were prevalent during 1890s Britain, such as social inequality, which similarly affects society today. In this short story, Wells