Utopia Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The Renaissance was a fascinating time for intellectuals and thinkers, as humanity began to explore ways to make the perfect society outside of the realm of religion. As scientific knowledge began to advance further and further, writers such as Francis Bacon and Thomas More began to write about how these changes were reflecting the ways in which societies were to be constructed. The notion of a utopia – a perfect society – was created, and More and Bacon penned their own visions of utopias that would have a more humanist, scientific basis in their societal construction, rather than religion. Through the work of Thomas More’ ...

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Literary Analysis - Brave New World and Gattaca
The very idea of a society in which blind happiness clouds the minds of its people seems much less comfortable than what the true definition of a Utopia suggests. Utopia is the state of achieving the perfect world. Unfortunately, after a number of literary or artistic attempts to define this world of ultimate bliss, 'perfection' seems to be nothing more than an illusion. It always turns out that harsh sacrifices must be made to achieve this universal happiness. Nevertheless, our world society seems to be adamantly geared towards achieving some form of this ...

The nature of the tragedy in Romeo and Juliet and A Man for All Seasons is based on the struggles and conflicts exciting inside and outside main heroes. A Man for All Seasons struggles with ideas of identity and conscience. The core argument of this play is whether morality, religion and law are absolutely different things. More says to Norfolk, "What matters is not that it's true, but that I believe it; or no, not that I believe it, but that I believe it." More depends upon the idea that any deal with a conscience will course him damnation, while ...

Setting the Stage: The Themes in Chapters 1-3

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a hybrid between a manifesto of ideas, brought forth by characters with only a patina of depth, and a story with the depth closer to a graphic novel than that of a traditional tome. The opening three chapters bring the majority of the significant themes or ideas at work in the book. The director explains how this particular Utopia provides people bred to order, using artificial fertilization to grow babies inside bottles. Ultimately, they are not born but instead are decanted. Each new person is assigned to one of five social castes, from the Alphas, who have the most ...

Humans since they began forming societies have concerned themselves with the thought and question of how we can perfect society into making it an ideal state. The word Utopia’s etymological roots go back to 1516 when Sir Thomas More used it in his book Utopia, which was a fictional work displaying an ideal society. George Orwell’s novel, Animals Farm, is a work that has a plot of animals attempting to develop a ideal society, but the work as a whole is dystopian, meaning it is making a case for the impossibility of an ideal or perfected society, since often time these societies forget ...

With the silent pauses of the monosyllables, Frost manages to say a remarkable lot through the compressed cadence of this unusually short poem. The smoothness of a lyric, the simplicity of a rhyme and a delicacy if highest order, the poem “nothing gold can stay” stands out because of the brevity in the message implied. Sired with several connotations and numerous contemplations Frost isn’t concerned with the direct passage of the meaning. It is a minefield of arguments, cryptic derivations and surface level meanings. Heavily end stopped and finalizing in its tone, it has a haunting and a captivating charm that is at once sonorous ...

Analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Within the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, there are many aspects of society that are portrayed. The story, written in 1973, represents the corruption within society. This classic short story makes the reader question what it really requires for a perfect world to exist, and if this feat is even possible. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin pushes readers out of their comfort zone by probing the ethical make up society through questioning the idea of Utopia and the moral decisions of society.

Within “The Ones Who ...

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In the film, the replicant models are only given four-year life spans because they are genetically engineered to be better than humans - stronger, more efficient, better reaction times. By the time they reach four years old, though, they have begun developing their own memories and emotional reactions. Because they are already adult sized and supposedly better than humans in important ways, there is a fear that the emotional immaturity they express may cause greater harm or that they will come to replace humans. This can be seen by comparing the two-year-old model Leon with the four-year-old model ...

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In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the reader is privy to the adventures of the inquisitive Alice as she tumbles down the rabbit hole and finds herself ensconced in a world of magic, talking animals and vaguely ‘trippy’ happenings. Throughout the novel, there are a number of magical transformations where the characters transition between forms, much like characters do in a number of traditional fairy tales: for example, the pumpkin becomes the carriage in Cinderella; the beast becomes the handsome prince; the wooden puppet becomes a real boy. All of these events happen to represent an underlying message – for ...

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The theme of the story is the unappreciative nature of human beings. The story features two snails who had the whole forest build for them. The story reflects the story in the Garden of Eden in the Genesis chapters of the bible. The two snails had were of a kind just like human beings are when still were in the Garden of Eden. They were the only two of their kind in the forest; the story in part describes the snails to have been the “aristocratic race in the world.” This only shows how noble the two white snails were, ...

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Paradise Beach Nevis is a luxury private villa resort that is geographically located on Nevis. The resort is just a few steps from the shores of the ocean. It contains villas that are thatched. The villa contains several services, among them include concierge who are able to do the coordination of all the activities before one arrives at the resort. The company makes use of promotional strategies to help in reaching its potential customers and stakeholders. Among the major strategies used include advertising, internet promotion and tv promotion.

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One of the most important novels in 20th century American history, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is an influential novel about the need to discover one’s meaning in life, and often acts as the thesis for the Beat movement of the 50s and 60s. The novel follows Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac, and his free-wheeling friend Dean Moriarty as they wander and hitchhike across the United States, searching desperately for belonging and a newfound sense of purpose in Cold-War America. This book provides an interesting portrait of 1950s America and the anxieties of its youth, showing the ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a review of chapters 22-24 of the book ‘The Scarlet Letter’. Barlow (2000) refers to this book as ‘The magnum opus’ of Nathaneal. (Barlow, 2000). ‘The Scarlet Letter’ is a story of love, adultery, betrayal, faith, belief and social criticism which was published in 1850 and holds a little bit of all these elements which can attribute to it the characterization of being a romantic novel.
The historical context of the novel’s plot is the social environment of the society living and developing in the area of Puritan Salem, in Massachusetts ...

Intersectionality is one of the woman’s libbers and the most propagative conception of the critical race theory. Women of color formations are compelled to address Intersectionality and the mutual and complex interactions of race, class, gender and sexuality (Lowe & Lloyd, 1997, p.310). Many feminists debate that a kind consideration of intersectionality is an important element to gain equality in politics and community, and also to improve the autonomous system.

Queer Liberalism

Queer epistemology rethinks intersectionality not just of radical, sexual, or class simultaneity but as a meeting of two streets, and in a landscape long given over to automotivitya place of particular hazard ...

Paradise Lost is a long standing work that has been credited with illustrating the many aspects of the human condition. This essay will explore Milton’s work in order to develop a better understanding of the layers of philosophy that have been responsible for generations of debate. This review will begin with an analysis of the how I believe the human condition has been reflected in this work and then move to illustrate the irony that is inherent in the reading. In the end, this literature review will demonstrate the full range of the reflected human condition as well as the ...

In an organizational set up, expertise entails the skills, comprehension and attributes of employees or systems which make a distinction between them and the novices or the inexperienced personnel. Expertise is a factor of production which resides in individual’s heads but is utilized actively by the organization. Expertise is thus believed to be a power that individuals hold upon a given specialty. Consequently, expertise is held upon different fields within the organization. This explains the fact why individuals cannot have expertise in all aspects or functions that the organization is involved in. Thus, expertise is differentiated along the various departments that the ...

The interaction between science and fiction in our day and age is for everybody to see and experience. The subject is a vast one and often kept separate from formal discussions its effects on the society and how it is affected by it. A science fiction topic which gained massive popularity in the decade of the 80’s and continued through to the 90’s was the subject of virtual reality. Virtual Reality simply refers to environments generated by a means of a computer program where physical presence is simulated. Such environments can be imaginary but very often bear close resemblance to ...

In the beginning of his first topic of discussion Inner Values in an Age of Science, he is expressing how you do not solely need to rely on the blessings of something there is also the action that is needed to be taken. Although he does still value blessings and prayers, they are just psychological benefits for everyone religious or not. He continues to compare prayer to modern science. Prayer does not come close to the success stories from modern medicine, for instance, he explains how you can pray for all kinds of things but medicine advances are what ...

Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, can surely be deemed as one of the very finest works in the history of English literature. This poem exudes the quintessence of the literary artist. The poet leaves a lasting impression on the minds of the avid readers with the excellent use of the literary techniques and aesthetic appeal that permeates through the entire poetic work. Surely a close scrutiny of this poem would enable one to understand how the literary work appeals with all its uniqueness. “Much ink has been spilled on many pages in exegesis ...

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The location of the research is spread within America so as to provide a focused understanding of the matter. The research works used quantitative as well as qualitative methods. The researchers used the data collection method of surveys. The works use theoretical approaches delving into psychological theories as well as other social science theories. This was consistent among the articles that would be discussed in the course of the paper. There is agreement among all the articles about the fact that family’s and friends’ support does matter a lot. There is ...

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Jane Kenyon’s poem Let Evening Come is an appeal to the innumerable readers to embrace the inevitable which awaits human beings at the end of the journey of life. The poet uses quintessential literary elements to express her emotions. The form, language and content of the poem make the literary work stand apart and converses the central theme of the poem metaphorically. The simplistic structure and language appeals universally and beings forth the message that human beings should submit to the impending “evening” and should let go of their inhibitions. The poem describes the transformational phases of various ...

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‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ is one of the best poems ever written by Robert Frost. It comprises only eight lines yet hold a great deal of substance. It is a highly inspirational poem which exhibits excellent alliteration, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, rhyming and meter. Considered as one of the best English poems, it is worth analysing. This essay illuminates the various interesting elements and literary devices- mainly the rhyming, the word music through assonance, consonance and internal rhyming and finally the metaphors used to convey such a great meaning in ‘Nothing Can Stay Gold’. The first two elements namely rhyming and word ...