Looking Backward The book Looking Backward was written by Edward Bellamy and published in the year 1888. Bellamy started off his career as a journalist but then married and decided to devote his efforts to writing fiction novels. Looking Backward was published and Bellamy was famous. The book stirred around the country and had people imagining a world like the one Bellamy created in his book. The idea of a utopia as the one he describes is unbelievable. His book is what people‚ of even now in
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Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 focuses on a man of the nineteenth century‚ Julian West‚ who awakens in the year 2000 after sleeping for 113 years. When Julian West wakes up in the year 2000‚ he discovers that the capitalist society in which he had previously lived has been eradicated and transformed into a socialist society where the problems of his era no longer exist . Throughout the novel‚ Edward Bellamy addresses the hardships of a society stricken by economic turmoil and social
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The novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy is a social commentary on the problems of late 1800’s society. Bellamy compares the negative afflictions of his time to an imagined utopia of the future year 2000 in order to open the eyes of the reader. By doing this‚ he hopes to create a social awareness for the poor cultural and economic values so that future generations can change for the better. One of the conditions that afflicted America in 1887 was in regards to labor. When asked what he thought
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Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Julian West‚ the main character of Looking Backward‚ was born into a rich family in the late nineteenth century. The gap between the rich and poor was very huge and seemed impossible to fix. Like the other people of his high class‚ Julian thought that he was greater than the poor people‚ and he saw their constant strikes with anger and contempt. He was engaged to Edith Bartlett‚ who was a beautiful and graceful Boston lady. They planned to get married when the
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awaked by a retired doctor and his wife and daughter when they find him sleeping in a chamber under their garden. The doctor’s family slowly introduces him to the incredible advancements society has made. The book “Looking Backward” written by Edward Bellamy is a utopian novel because of the society he described is imaginative‚ and socialism system in 2000 is so perfect that it cannot be achieved in real life. In this book‚ it is not real because Julian West can sleep through a whole century and still
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A utopian society is a society which has perfect political and social order. When talking about a utopian society‚ the word perfect is synonymous. A perfect society seems close‚ but is really very far away. The ideal society consists of knowledge‚ reverence‚ and equality. Knowledge is the information that people acquire and use to have a better awareness and understanding of things. Reverence is having a respectful attitude towards something or someone that is held in high regard. Equality is when
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nineteenth century‚ Edward Bellamy wrote Looking Backward to address the flaws and offer solutions for a better society. The author lived during the peak of the Industrial Revolution‚ which increased the efficiency of the economy‚ but also widened the gap between social classes. Innovative machinery was able to produce more output per capita and also raise the average standard of living‚ but the majority of the wealth was possessed by a direct minority of the population. Bellamy‚ observing the social
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HIS 1107B Kevin Comtois WeiYun Huang History Essay 1 – Henry George‚ Edward Bellamy and Andrew Carnegie Henry George use 18 months to complete his book which named is Progress and Poverty in San Francisco. When he submitted his book to D. Appleton and Co‚ they didn’t accept his book. Then Henry George turn to his printer friend who named is William Hinton. William Hinton let Henry George use his shop. At first‚ Henry George’s son and Henry George’s printer friends help Henry George
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Since the dawn of man people have dreamed of the ideal society. A vision that speaks to the hopes of mankind. Numerous men and women have written about their ideal world; Plato when writing his Republic‚ Thomas Moore in his Utopia‚ and Edward Bellamy in Looking Backwards are just a few examples of perfect worlds that have been dreamed by man. Humans are naturally curious beings with an uncanny desire to explore and create. We are each‚ in a sense‚ pioneers that are sent to explore the vastness of
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Communism is political problem which involves people removing class distinctions. In America‚ class distinctions are very important and well needed because it protects us to a certain instinct. Some people do not know did communism really pose a domestic threat to America. This idea is neutral because the communist has contradicting ideas and the spying communist were doing. This prove that communism is a bad thing for America. The conflicts on the communist war proved ideas contradicted each other
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