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    utopian society? How does a society react and live in a utopia? Will all impurities in a utopia be forever expunged? Will everything be equal? In George Orwell’s fable Animal Farm‚ the animals want equality and freedom‚ but is not achieved due to the nature of their human oppressors. The animals rebel and send their humans oppressors off like a herd of turtles. The pigs on the farm become the dictators‚ turning the farm they live on into a utopia. But over time‚ they do practices similar to that of

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    to his children. The theme is succinctly summed up near the end of the story when George asks Lydia‚ “What prompted us to buy a nightmare?” and she replies‚ “Pride‚ money‚ foolishness.” Dystopia A dystopia is a place in which people lead fearful‚ dehumanized lives. It is the opposite of a utopia. Dystopias often serve as

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    future years the technology will just get better and better. You would think people would be happier and life would be described as a Utopia. In Ray Bradbury’s Farhenheit 451‚ soicety is the farthest from it. This book takes place in 2053‚ and it would actually be described as a dystopia. Murder‚ suicide‚ and uncompassionate people are deffinitly not signs of a Utopia. It’s the complete oppisite. One factor that can contribute to a dystopian society would most deffinitly be murder. In Farhenheit

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    Traveler arrives in 802‚701 A.D.‚ he encounters a civilization of tender‚ child-like creatures called the Eloi who he soon learns are frivolous‚ indolent‚ and dull-minded‚ despite their beauty and innocence (Literature and Genetics). The Eloi live in a utopia of perfect communism where each of them dress‚ eat and live exactly the same. The evolved humanoids seem to have kept some of their ancestors’ emotions although they do not always express them. An example of this is when Weena is drowning in the futuristic

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    set the sometimes violent and depressing scenes it is definitely a journey worth travelling… A plane full of school boys escaping a violent war is shot down‚ landing on a deserted tropical island‚ that seems to be a perfect escape‚ perhaps even a utopia. Piggy and Ralph discover a conch shell

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    is a different species. Both of them know where they came from‚ they kept that home with them in their memories. E.T. E.T. and Fry are contrasts of one another‚ both in fortunate circumstances for their preferences. Fry’s new home‚ the future‚ is a utopia for him. Fry is unintentionally thrown into a situation where: everybody he has ever known and love has died‚ every monument and city he has known to be familiar is destroyed‚ and all of the people and technology are new and more advanced than what

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    Revolution‚ The Beatles take a look at the government and question whether the alternatives they propose are truly better than what they are criticizing. Montag also questions the motives of his government and why they consist of creating this unpleasant dystopia. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag shows his first thoughts of rebellion when Clarisse asks him “Do you ever read any of the books that you burn?” (Pg.8). Although he is curious about the information that these books hold‚ Montag reiterates to Clarisse

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    away from individuals just to achieve that. Societies like the ones in Fahrenheit 451‚ 1984‚ and The Giver try to perfect the land they rule into a utopia. Instead of creating a utopian environment‚ they consummate forced control instead. Regardless of implementation or motivation‚ 1984‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ and The Giver are unsuccessful in establishing a utopia because the societies control their citizens with fear and ignorance. The societies in 1984‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ and The Giver want control to maintain

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    Andrew Niccols‚ 1997 are both speculative fictions as they forewarn humanity by creating a reduced but parallel reality to our own society in a way that highlights humanity’s problems‚ creating a microcosm of society. In each text the theme of Utopias/dystopias are used to display to mankind how what seems to be a prefect world is really the opposite. Discrimination is also highly evident in both texts as well as identity which are all used as warnings humankind. The novel Lord of the Flies begins

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    When I think about Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ and when I ask myself the question whether it is a typical science fiction story‚ I find myself completely perplexed. But then again‚ what is exactly a ‘typical science fiction story’? Because many critics‚ I believe‚ would never say that nothing in the body of work of this eccentric writer is ‘typical’. Rather he would show all signs of ‘atypicality’‚ of eluding any specific genre classifications. But‚ then again‚ none of literary critics seem to

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