Essays on Utopian Society

The theme of a ‘utopia’ – a place which is normally defined as the ideal state or place to live, is something which has captured the minds of writers and philosophers for centuries. The word ‘utopia’ itself is something of a word-play – in Greek, the word as sounded could mean either ευ-τοπος (good-place) or ου-τοπος (no-place), and the debate over which interpretation is correct is something which has lasted for almost as long as the concept of utopia itself! Plato’s Republic is a book which delineates in fine detail the republic that Plato has envisaged for his countrymen, detailing ...

In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia which described a perfect society situated on an unknown island. This book has become an embodiment of the perfect society from these times to the present. This book was not only a beginning of a new age in evaluating a prototype of the society, but also a new stage in literature. This book is still the most provocative and has a lot of opponents. As a proving example, The Guardian (‘Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical’, 2015) reveals that this book is not a favorite one in Buckingham Palace. ...

The Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, reveals how life and relationships between individuals would be like in the terms of Utopian society. This kind of society requires every individual living within it to look for perfection in life and environment, in which everyone shares the same opinions and beliefs, so there is no disruption within the built system. Just like a normal society, Utopian one consists of males and females, living among each other and developing connections, however, everything in their lives is controlled by the government, so the situation would be different, than in a normal ...

Thomas More’s Approach to Utopia

The book is about a Utopian society whose story and details are narrated to Peter Giles and More by a world traveller and philosopher by the name Raphael Hythloday. More had been among the delegates sent to negotiate a diplomatic dispute between King Henry VIII and prince Charles of Castile (Thomas 9). The negotiations were not successful at first and the delegates from the two teams took a break as they awaited further instructions from their rulers. It is during this break that More travels to Antwerp to spend time with Giles ant it is there that he also ...

Introduction

Born in the year 1904 in a Pennsylvanian town, B. F. Skinner is a world known psychologist (Kuhlmann 8). He embarked on the development of his human behavior ideas after earning a doctorate from the University of Harvard. Skinner showed a peculiar interest in making different contraptions and gadgets at a very early age. While he was studying at the Hamilton College, he developed a writing passion. He attempted to work his way into becoming a prolific writer after his graduation, but this turned out as a huge failure (Kuhlmann 8). After this is when Skinner decided to pursue a totally different course with his life and study ...

Initially, Utopia is an ideal place that is characterized by its social, moral and political aspects. Ideally, when one comes from Utopia, he or she is deemed to be rich in morals. Therefore, it may be surprising that one’s experience in a different environment might identify the new culture to be challenging or accommodative. Accordingly, some of the ideologies that are used to describe the society are deemed to be impractical and non realistic with respect to other cultures (Homer, 65). Ideally, the term was coined to establish a community that has exceedingly desirable due to the available qualities in ...

Edward Bellamy was an economist who disliked the socio-economic conditions because many laborers got a subsistence pay. Bellamy wrote a book called Looking Backward, which focuses on Julian West who is an upperclassman, lived in Boston. It is important to note that Bellamy lived during the industrial revolution in the US. His book talks of West being induced to sleep because of his chronic Insomnia. The author records accounts of laborers striking because the capitalists and the landlords enjoyed all the profits and interests respectively. Bellamy writes, “The producers of the nineteenth century were not, like ours, working together for the ...

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’ ...

There are many societies all over the world that have created different programs and paths that they set out to follow in the quest for a more peaceful society. The peace that the societies search for may differ from one society to another. However, these societies always have in mind the creation of a perfect place to live in where there are little or no problems where every member of the society lives in unending bliss. Many scholars have named this method of society creation as utopianism. Utopia emphasizes on different aspects of the society as the architects of the type ...

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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 ...

Until the advent of the 20th century, China was a rural society composed of an agrarian economy with very little experience of the urban. This state of affairs however elevated the country into a collective socialist imaginative mirage of a Utopian system. The application of a Utopian system is largely associated with some of the 20th century leaders such as Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin whom in their quest for a Utopia on earth led to a “state of hell” where thousands of citizen got killed. Although the Utopian systems such as that of Adolf’s “Thousand year Reich” ultimately ended up in a ...

Within science fiction, the concept of the dystopian world exists. These are the dark visions of the society. However, it is difficult to imagine that utopias would exist. Harrison Bergeron and V for Vendetta stories present dystopian societies and both are stories of the future which shows how the government will slowly start controlling its people. In the stories, one character stands up to the government and shows significant defiance unfortunately, they end up dying trying to fight the controlling governments (Paik 34). The utopian society experience ideal life as everything runs smoothly. It resembles paradise as people ...

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 ...

The Federalist papers were a collection of documents written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. They wrote The Federalist No. 51 in 1787 seeking to discuss the issue over the distribution of power. Initially, they had intended the papers to be read by the merchants of New York, whose support they essentially needed to defeat the upstate Antifederalists, but ultimately, The Federalist papers were read all over the United States (Peacock). The executive, legislative, and judiciary were the three branches of government that were formed under the constitution. Although the three branches were independent and served their own ...