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    City Of Atlantis

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    According to Merrian-Webster‚ a utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws‚ government‚ and social conditions. The Lost City of Atlantis was a real city that sank into the ocean in 9600 B.C. Plato’s records of the city‚ other scientists’ research‚ and the discovery of an underwater city a mile under the ocean all prove that this utopian society existed centuries ago. Plato describes the Lost City of Atlantis as a utopia‚ one that had a perfect republic and held the key to world peace

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    Utopian Society

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    an ideal community or society that possesses a desirable perfection. Although it is only an attempt to be ideally perfect. The characteristics of a utopia can portray one’s dystopia or nightmare. That is what leads to the question: do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? This question determines whether the world or society is a utopia or a dystopia. Unquestionably the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. A society that does not care for individual needs begins to slowly

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    Throughout the course of History countless philosophers have written about the idea of utopian societies. This idea is such an intriguing topic to philosophers‚ because theoretically Utopian societies are impossible‚ so trying to come up plausible societies in which everything is perfect presents a kind of challenge for them. Of the many philosophers that have given their two cents on the matter‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx’s are two of the more interesting ones. In Rousseau’s Discourse

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    Utopian society was a work of fiction with the writer exhibiting what would be considered as an ideal community that differed from the medieval view and adopted a modernist approach. In his book‚ Utopia‚ More’s main features highlight an ideal society and has been adopted today‚ to an extent by the society. In Utopia‚ the structure of the community about marriage and family is idealized. Premarital sex is severely punished and families adopt a traditional structure with elders at the head of the household

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    dangerous mixtures. The plague stricken town‚ transversed throughout with hierarchy‚ surveillance‚ observation‚ writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies-this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city (224‚ Foucault)Foucaults quote describes the society in Oceania in Orwells 1984‚ where it describes the controls put on the citizens through control of relation‚ surveillance‚ and separating out their dangerous mixtures

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    chyra butler

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    Comparison Utopia vs Dystopia Utopia vs Dystopia Page 1Zoom in Page 1 2 Next Essay length: 912 words Submitted: 30/08/2010 Saved View my saved essays Submit similar essay Share this essay: Are you in the right place? Jump to English Literature and see how teachers think you should prepare in: GCSE 32‚699 AS and A-level 8‚360 University 2‚270 AS AND A LEVEL OTHER CRITICISM & COMPARISON The first 200 words of this essay... Utopia vs. dystopia Utopia is the idea of

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    man’s  thinking  by  creating  an  ideological  society  in  his  work‚  Utopia‚ while in The Prince‚ Niccolo Machiavelli attempts to teach man how to deal  with  human  nature.  This  exemplifies  that  Machiavelli’s  concept  is  much  more  realistic   than  More’s;  therefore  Machiavelli  better  represents  concepts  of  human  characteristics  such  as  leadership‚ religion‚ and military.  In  Thomas  More’s  Utopia‚  Utopia  is  a  description  of  the  ideal  human  society  that  demonstrates 

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    In the story The One Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin is about a perfect utopian society without any misery. Omelas’s happiness is based on discrimination‚ pain is intellectual‚ and evil is interesting. Omelas finds it necessary to sacrifices one child’s misery. However‚ the people choose to live life in content knowing that the child is locked in despair because it remains them to be happy. According to the city of Omelas‚ there has to be an immoral sacrifice to make the citizens

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    Nothing Is Perfect

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    I‚ for certain‚ know I have. Yet‚ if you really stop to think about it‚ perfection isn ’t attainable because we always want something bigger and better as human nature. In the novel‚Brave New World ‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ there is strongly influential Utopia existing. Even in a controlled society such as the one represented in this book‚ the people still revolt against the government. There are people in this book who change things‚ like Bernard or John the Savage‚ and there are people who help keep this

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    Dystopia

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    authoritarian or totalitarian governments are in charge. There often made of “repressive social control system‚ a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expression‚ and a state of constant warfare or violence.” Many dystopias are combined with utopias to offer a metaphor of the different directions humanity can go (Good Reads). There are four different types of control the government could have in dystopian novels. Corporate Control is when a large corporation controls its people through advertising

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