The Giver By Lois Lowry

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” (Lois Lowry, The Giver). Utopia sounds great being a perfect society with no problems existing. They might seem possible looking at many utopian experiments and how successful some are. A utopia is an imagined place that has a perfect society where there are no problems and nothing is new. Since utopias are perfect there are nothing wrong that can happen in them, nothing new can happen, exciting, dangerous, everything is the same with no difference. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community was supposed to be a utopian society. The community had looked like one from the outside, but the reality was that it was a dystopia, a society
“For one thing, the bar is constantly being raised. Life in a modest American town today would have been the envy if the Middle Ages.” (Why Utopias Fail, 87). Everyone also has a different idea of what a utopian society is. As the time passes and humans get more advanced, what would have been a utopia a long time ago was achieved. Then by that time humans would have a different view of what a utopia is and would never be able to reach the utopia they wished so badly for. “Utopian experiments have been attempted at every step in the march of civilization.” (Why Utopias Fail, 87). Even though utopian societies have been attempted almost in every period of time, why have they not worked? The answer is in human nature, whenever there was something good, such as a food source, good location to live, or just fresh water it was always taken by the stronger groups. People aren’t perfect either, people make mistakes in the planning of utopian societies that sometimes is the cause in its fall. Though a lot of reasons why utopias cannot exist is because of human nature, it is not the only reason why utopias cannot exist, another reason is plainly just all the weaknesses a perfect society