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    Assignment Sheet: The Giver Persuasive Essay Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver describes a society in search of perfection‚ which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling‚ among other things‚ would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings‚ the creators were able to implement Sameness‚ which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

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    Utopia In The Novel 1984

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    In the novel “1984” by George Orwell he shows readers what a negative utopia is. Winston Smith is the main character and the plot revolves around how Winston feels frustrated by the control of the party. The party has a strong control over its citizens and the use telescreens‚ the thought police‚ and the youth league to maintain their control through psychological manipulation. The party maintains their control over citizens by using telescreen to have around-the-clock surveillance. They use the

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    Now‚ what is a Utopia? A Utopia is a place where everything was simply perfect. Now‚ we all have different opinions on how a world would be a Utopia. In my opinion‚ a place would be perfect if ALL living creatures had fair game. An example of fair game is the amount of land both of us have‚ spliting the land roughly 50/50. This is not the only thing that would make a place perfect‚ all of us humans would also like to have equal fairness‚ too! An example of this is when in a court case‚ that the judge

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    Extended Response to The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written in the 1980s‚ is a highly complex post-modern dstopian text that explores the issues of feminism. The dystopian genre attacks the myth of a utopia‚ bringing all possibilities to an extreme while the term post modernism explores the consequences of monocracy on modern society and the dynamics of language. Atwood’s use of a female perspective on a hypothetical dystopian society enables her to pursue the controversy of

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    Thomas More's Utopia

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    Via dialogue between Raphael Hythloday and himself‚ Thomas More’s Utopia illuminates the disaffection to truth held by the entrenched powers that be. While the entirety of Book One contains insight into the nature of life‚ justice‚ and property - I found the dialogue regarding French foreign policy to be the most illuminating. Examining Plato’s argument in favor of philosopher kings‚ Raphael argues that such a proposal is implausible. While philosopher kings can exist‚ and they would be glad to offer

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    constitution.” Harrison Bergeron’s world was a dystopia. Throughout the short story‚ even though it tried to have equality there was force and people being treated unfair. The government rules were made to make everyone equal. However‚ because of the difference it does not work as planned and it cause Harrison and a beautiful ballerina to get killed. Harrison’s world is also a dystopia because his family and many others lived I fear. Life today as we know it is a dystopia because even though there are rules/laws

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    Everyone has their own vision of what their utopia would be like. All of these visions have different people with different rules in different places. Mirriam-Webster dictionary defines a utopia as an imaginary place in which the government‚ laws‚ and social conditions are perfect. My utopia would have caring people‚ a fair economy‚ and a peaceful location.  The first part of a society are the people that live there. The people that live in Victority‚ my utopia‚ are caring‚ intelligent‚ and resourceful

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    The book The Giver is a dystopia. It is a dystopia because you get your bike at 12 years old‚ they kill small children‚ and they can’t leave the community. Children in The Giver receive their bikes when they are twelve. I think that is too old.I think you need to get your bike it eight years old.Because if you get your bike at 8 you can practice. So when you get twelve you will know how to ride your bike to where you need to go. So you need to get your bike taller than twelve. In the b community

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    human nature is constantly seen in Thomas More’s Utopia and Machiavelli’s The Prince. Each believes human nature to be corrupt; however‚ More offers an alternative to correct such a problem while Machiavelli does not. Therefore‚ the creation of an ideal institution is not seen possible by one of these literary works. Both works do describe the community that is possible under certain circumstances. Some individuals may not agree that More’s Utopia and Machiavelli’s The Prince are at all much different

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    Is Utopia Possible through Planning? Utopia is often used to describe a place in our imagination. Utopia is a virtual world in which we think everything will be perfect‚ everything would be planned and set out for all of our needs at any time‚ but that’s just our imagination. If we were to create a Utopia we would need a huge amount of the cites population to becomes neutral on what Utopia is to them. Is it possible for utopia to become true? Utopia would be possible if everyone just dropped their

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