Essays on Utopian

The political elements of Star Trek show that the series had more insight than what is apparent. The show started in the 1960s when the Cold War was at its height. Many authorities argue that Star Trek is an exploration based on self-interest, colonialism, collectivism and control . However, George Gonzalez takes a different approach in The Politics of Star Trek where he undertakes a critical review of the story within the context of the actual implications of the actions of the characters. This paper will review the first two chapters of the book in order to present the critical ...

Introduction

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed (1974) are useful resources that demonstrate the utopian models and breaking of limits by individuals. The paper aims at identifying the concepts of individuality in the settings of radically different individuals in the society. It demonstrates the differences in culture and interactions that exist between racially different individuals as well as their similarities. Both texts are utopian in that they give a critical review of the powerful ideologies that exist between human, environments, politics among others. The essay focuses on two characters that help in pushing the plot forward as ...

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. ...

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At the end of the XVIII century, a lot of educated Americans have not shared the traditional Christian beliefs. In the first half of the XIX century, a religious revival comes as a reaction to the secular spirit of the age. It was the second major religious revival in American history consisted of several kinds of activity and ways of expressing religious duties. In New England, the revived interest in religion caused a social activity. In the west of the State of New York spirit of rebirth caused the emergence of new religions. In the Appalachian region of Kentucky ...

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 ...

The nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century have brought some dramatic changes in all aspects of human life. Technological advances, industrial development, new political and social movements have changed the common perception of the social structure, the rights of the different social groups, and the wealth distribution paradigm. In the United States, the period is known as the Progressive Era, where positive changes, improvements in all aspects of life were embraced by the majority of the population and, most of all, by the emerging middle class. Labor movement, socialist ideas and women’s suffrage were all products ...

Term Paper

1500 words The Modern period continued to change the society until the late 20th century, where a new artistic era began and continued up to this day; the 21st century eventually became the Post-Modern Period and many radical changes brought by the Modernism is adopted by the new art styles to the point of it is hard to discern what Post-Modernism is all about. If Modernism concentrated on the preservation of ideal pure art, Post Modernism welcomed changes by using eccentric methods to produce contemporary art found in Modern Museums. The 21st century is currently covered by postmodern epoch ...

Modernity refers to the approaches, behavior, and ideas of the post-traditional period. Originally, modernity can be defined as a critique of tradition, and a movement toward a new point of view rooted in new paradigms and insights. Recently, modernity has embodied present-day thoughts and present-day lifestyle. One important aspect that arises from this definition of social change and its impact on human experience is the formation of a newly constructed self-image and identity. In essence, the concept of modernity differentiates the modern person from the traditional individual. Such newly founded freedom in connection to modernity involved an experience and ...

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 ...

Historians and researchers have documented various changes that have taken place in the world since time memorial. One of the major variations that has occurred over the last century is the change from a local to a global society that has integrated the entire world into one common unit. This essay conceptualizes on the works of various authors who have studied the relationship between a local and global community. The writers under evaluation are Donald Wright, who authored The World a Very Small Place, Ryan Poll of Main Street and Empire, and Hunt of The World Transformed. Hunt’s ...

Rapid changes that erupted in the United States during the antebellum period in the American history brought to life several new social movements and phenomena. The new society that was formed by the Market Revolution, growth in population, change in its composition and expansion to the west showed a great desire for better life, for self-improvement and correction of the social vices of that time. These processes have resulted in the Second Great Awakening, Utopian communal experiments, temperance, women’s rights societies and other social movements. The story of the Kingdom of Matthias, or in more sober terms, a ...

The antebellum years in the American history are known as the years of rapid changes in various spheres of social life. The drive for reforms was defined by the economic, technological and social progress that deemed the existing social structure unacceptable for all member of the American society. Several factors were involved in this process. Among those were the Industrial Revolution, the religious movement that is known as the Second Great Awakening, the utopian communities, the transcendentalism intellectual movements and others. “They [the reformers] hoped to change American life by creating ‘heavens on earth’” (Foner, 2014, p.434). Prior to ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

ANALYZE THE TROPE OF VIOLENCE IN ‘ANOTHER COUNTRY’

The story of an unsuccessful musician and his death is a knowingly violent one. The features of violence shape the general image of “Another Country”, revealing the deepest secrets of its characters and leading the plot to unexpected fields. The trope of violence, present in “Another Country” starts before Rufus’s death and is directly connected to him. As the story develops, violence starts to come out in other characters’ relationships. The violence, which takes place in Rufus’s life, is mainly focused around his affair with Leona and Eric. In fact, the origins of heterosexual relations are rooted ...

What Kind of Truth is Steinbeck Trying to Explore in Cannery Row?

This essay deals with the novel of John Steinbeck, which is called Cannery Row. The main goal of this essay is to reveal the kind of truth that Steinbeck tries to explore. A lot of critics state that Steinbeck tries to create some sort of social utopia. He tries to do it by presenting a society where a group of misfits is able to coexist due to their tenderness and warm-hearted nature. However, there are also examples of violence and cruelty (eNotes). Cannery Row is the place on the map where all the people are poor, but thy have ...

"Walden or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau belongs to the vivid and memorable American works of classical literature. The personality of the author and the pages of his famous book highlight anti-capitalist, romantic, and utopian ideas that received considerable spread in the United States in the 30-40-ies of the last century and these ideas were a kind of protest against the brutality of the bourgeois industrial progress and its accompanying social ills.   The ideological pioneers of the anti-capitalist and romantic-utopian protests were called transcendentalists. It is a circle of prominent representatives of the American democratic intelligentsia, ...

Men Who Built America is a series about successful people whose industrial innovation influenced much their country and brought them a world-wide popularity. Most Americans believe that Henry Ford invented the automobile. Ford’s merit in that he created mass production. He invented the automobile business. When the businesses became economically organized, there appeared the demand for the managers, so that XX century became the time of management. Henry Ford built the largest industrial production of the early XX century and earned 36 billion dollars, its principles had a tremendous influence on public life in the United States. He ...

With the growing popularity of hip hop in the youth culture, there can be noticed a growing number of films appearing in the cinematographic industry depicting the in-demand sub-culture. Being more than just a music genre, hip hop can be fairly called a way of life that thousands of young people found close to their spirit. So the ways it looks like in real life and in movies really differ and thus hip hop is usually a controversial topic for discussion. This paper is thus going to reflect on how authentic hip hop is represented in cinema in terms ...

One of the major effects of industrialization in Southeast Asia is the emergence of the Utopian cities developed in order to cater the needs of the wealthy and the middle class citizens whose income allows them to purchase properties such as high-rise condominiums near the city centers near their workplaces. This paper explores some of the side-effects created by monopolizing the public spaces into a commodity marketed only to those people who belong to the rich and the middle class.

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