Looking Backward

“Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy is a utopian science fiction novel which was published in the year of 1888. “Looking Backward” belongs with century-old tradition of utopian fiction, which portray a perfect human society (when one is not). “Looking Backward” underlines what Bellamy perceived as evil in the social and economic systems of the nineteenth-century society. Bellamy's novel suggested that to solve many of the problems of social equality, an economy based on publicly-owned capital would succeed its job. The novel is told from the author’s point of view, Julian West, who was born into a aristocratic family during the late nineteenth-century. In the novel, Julian West thought of himself as unaffected by the problems between the