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    controlling owners‚ a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands” (Laura Chinchilla). Thomas More wrote a novel of sorts based around the nation’s equality‚ social harmony‚ economic prosperity and political stability. He wrote about how one can achieve a utopian society in his time. Utopia is a perfect world where everything is perfect and nothing scandalous

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    efficiently I believe this is to hide the outside world‚ not to protect the people. Also‚ The community in The Giver s a dystopia. This community is a dystopia because in the text it states it states‚”Dystopia‚ which is the direct opposite of utopia‚ is a term to describe a utopian society gone wrong.” There are three main reasons I think the community in The Giver is dystopia. The people are not able to learn efficiently‚ The people are too supervised‚ and it

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    Analysis Paper: Dystopia Everyone has an ideal world in which they’d want to live in. Of course no one wants to live in a place in which there is violence‚ cruelty‚ bad energy etc. But‚ for some‚ in order to achieve their ideal perfection of a utopia; they must do anything in their power to get close to what they have envisioned there ideal place would be like. Sure‚ some may say there is no such thing as perfection‚ others think otherwise. With variety of opinions whether a utopia can exist there

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    history of failed endeavors at utopia‚ do we realize the importance of how our own society functions? When people take a look at dystopian societies and how life was like for the members‚ the greatness of how our living environment operates is revealed. We live in a world that is neither a utopia or dystopia‚ simply because it is the only viable alternative to a perfect society. Although not everyone is completely content‚ it happens to be extremely different from the dystopias of past and present. Yet

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    Dystopic reality The utopias in Genesis‚ Lord of The Flies and The Life of Pi all are created and then destroyed. A utopia is a paradise‚ whether that is an abundance of resources‚ food and water or simply a place of peace and divinity. Utopias have not lasted‚ however‚ because of human instinct. In the three texts many techniques have been used to shape our thinking of utopias‚ and how they inevitably become dystopias. Golding’s allegorical novel Lord of the Flies‚ tracks the fall from innocence

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    ways that end in creating catastrophe or dystopia. This theme is evident throughout the books and stories we’ve been reading. Each of the stories had a background in which the dystopia began – they have a reoccurring theme of the creator of the utopia having good intentions for his or her people‚ but carrying out those intentions in a bad way. The person then potentially becomes obsessed with the idea and it controls him or her. The result is the dystopia either being destroyed or the main character

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    quickly turns into a dystopian experience as each dangerous event takes out a child one by one. Sarah Dongen states‚ “Utopia is a word and concept with multiple definitions. Through the ages the concept has changed and in different fields of study utopia has a different connotation. According to Fátima Vieira‚ Associate Professor at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto‚ utopia has two different meanings: namely it ‘’alludes to imaginary paradisiacal places’’ and it is ‘’a particular kind of

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    created society or ‘dystopia’ frequently constructs apocalyptic views of a future using crime‚ immorality or corrupt government to create or sustain the bad quality of people’s lives‚ often conditioning the masses to believe their society is proper and just‚ and sometimes perfect. It can provide space for heroism in disrupting the dystopian setting. Most dystopian fiction takes place in the future but often purposely develops contemporary social trends taken to extremes. Dystopias are frequently written

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    Elements of Dystopian Fiction A dystopia is a futuristic and imagined world where the illusion of a perfect society is created by a government or some other controlling force. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia‚ which is an ideally perfect world and also tries to present itself as a utopia to its citizens. A dystopian novel is a book written about a dystopia that often criticizes some aspect of modern society and usually contains at least one character who realizes what is really going

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    Define the terms UTOPIA and DYSTOPIA‚ and discuss whether The Chrysalids can be considered a Utopian or a Dystopian novel. One could describe the novel "The Chrysalids" as a dystopian novel as apposed to utopian. The town in which David and the rest of shape-thinkers live is deffinatly not a utopia as well as the new land to which they move‚ Sealand. The dictionary definition of utopia is an imaginary island with perfect social & political system‚ social and political paradise

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