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    Dystopia is a society that is being controlled in every way. The society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. The key characteristic of a dystopian society is that citizens go through torture because they’re living in a dehumanized state. Essentially the society is an illusion apparition of a perfect utopian world. All of the society’s freedom is cramped. There is complete fearfulness in all of all the

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    Human rights is an issue that may never fully be resolved any time soon. There are too many ideas of what makes up a “perfect society.” Someone will always be turned down for an interview because their name is Tyrone or Quintana. Richard is more likely to be hired over Tracy. Jackson will more than likely lose his job opportunity the moment he checks the “sexual orientation”

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    “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut is about a “perfect” society, when in reality, it is not. In this “perfect” world there is no old age, disease, wars, poverty, cripples, asylums, slums, or prisons, The population was under control but at a cost. Volunteers were to be had. The volunteers would be put in a gas chamber and killed. In order to have children, there had to be a volunteer for each kid. Most people were blinded by this world. This was not a perfect society, people’s right to reproduce freely was

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    A perfect society. Something we long and hope for, and work towards to achieve for our future. We picture this society in many different ways, including things like equality, no poverty, and everyone being taken care of among many things. However, we have not become this perfect society yet. This makes you start to wonder, what is preventing this perfect society that we all share a vision of? The perfect society would contain things like equality, happiness, and unity. However, these things are counteracted

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    Do you believe in a perfect society? Well perfect societies don’t exist, at least not in Animal Farm. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell the animals try to have a perfect society without the humans. The animal have a society according to them and what they think is a perfect society but it slowly falls apart. The pigs control everything, many wars occur, and the farm unknowingly changes. The book Animal Farm proves that a perfect society doesn’t exist. Animals worked to rebell against the

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    A perfect society is an unattainable idea, because everyone has a different idea of what a perfect society would be. While on the other hand making yourself a better person can better a whole society. Creating a perfect society would be fairly difficult thinking of factors such as not everyone agrees on what a perfect society is. Some people may think it is when there is no hate or when everyone is equal while others believe the opposite. Although, when someone works to better themselves and they

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    their sins by going to therapy, taking some medication, meditating, etc. Thomas More wants to return to a perfect Utopian society similar to the land of Paradise. In order to fix a broken society, More uses the seven deadly sins (lust, greed, sloth, envy, gluttony, pride, and wrath) to set up a logical fix to man’s fall. His goal is to simplify and remove the temptation to commit sin. A society made to remove sin may seem logical in More’s eyes, but his philosophy for the use of gold and silver, the

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    ideal or perfect Society. In Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” we are introduced to such a society. However, today’s reader can see that the society More’s mention’s is filled with many underlying problems that make it seem less ideal or perfect, because it puts too much stress on the freedom’s and rights of its citizens. Such an act is detrimental in creating a utopia, because if the citizens are not happy with their freedom’s and rights then how can such a society be considered ideal or perfect, it is instead

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    Not So Perfect In today’s society, “City on a Hill,” is a cliche, a quaint romantic notion of an ideal society, but for the Puritans of the 17th century, the “City on a Hill” was much more. It represented a tangible goal of moral ambition, achievable through purity of thought and action. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible , the City on a Hill” that Puritans refer to suggests

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    once mankind does not have to dream, the near perfect utopia of the future, the perfect society, is within its grasp. Some novels, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, can aid in giving an example of a Utopian paradise for all. There are a multitude of measures which should be borrowed from The Giver’s homogenous unit. The main rule that should be reintroduced is that of capital punishment. This rule should be reintroduced, because it allows for a safer society. The notion of three transgressions, followed

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