An Intricate Puzzle: Utopian Communities and Transcendentalism Outline: An Intricate Puzzle: Utopian Communities and Transcendentalism Introduction- The two American Romanticism concepts of transcendentalism and the idealism of utopian communities fit together like an intricate puzzle‚ but there are still many factors that differentiate them. I. Places faith in inner experience and the power of imagination a. Alike i. Could be alone and do your job ii. Reflections
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GENY0002 SESSION 2 2013 Academic Skills Plus Essay 2 Atwood writes: “What I mean by ‘science fiction’ is those books that descend from H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds‚ which treats of an invasion by tentacled‚ blood-sucking Martians shot to Earth in metal canisters – things that could not possibly happen – whereas‚ for me‚ “speculative fiction” means plots that descend from Jules Verne’s books about submarines and balloon travel and such – things that really could happen but just hadn’t
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Betrayal of Freedom Here I am again; working for another rich family to do their labour. I hate having no freedom. I have been owned by different rich families ever since I was born. I am now 16‚ 17 in a month‚ I think. I kind of lose track. I never met my parents. They were slaves for other folks so I guess I won’t ever get to meet them. I don’t get jealous of the rich families though. They got no respect; the young spoilt‚ spiteful children treat me like a piece of shit on their shoe. I can’t do
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In Dystopian literature‚ the society has a code of conduct that they live by. Few people in society question the power. In the book “The Giver‚” Jonas‚ a 12 year old‚ earns the job of Receiver of memory. As he gets to know more about what has been taken from the society‚ he questions why. Another story‚ The Pedestrian‚ Mr.Mead‚ an older man‚ walks around the town. A police officer pulls him over and says that walking is obsolete. Mr.Mead is not understanding and questions the police officer‚ then
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Imagine a world where books where illegal and if someone gets caught with them the books would be set on fire. The most common theme found in the novel Fahrenheit 451 is the idea of censorship. In this dystopian society Montag‚ the protagonist in the story if a fireman‚ not like one we would think of today someone that puts out fires. Montag’s job is to start them; firemen in this society are to start fires to houses that contain books in them. But If the same laws applied in our society there would
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Dystopian Stories: Creative Worlds “Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could realize that no utopia is possible” (Jack Carroll) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury are all dystopian stories. In The Hunger Games each year two children are picked from one of the twelve districts to fight to the death in The Hunger Games‚ to show that they can not rebel against the capital. They are forced to do this to show
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Is it possible to have a Utopian society with the human race? A Utopia is a society that is perfect and nothing goes wrong in the society. It is impossible to have a Utopian society with the human race. Reasons for being impossible is because not everyone is going to think the same and agree on everything. Humans have emotions and this is one if the characteristics of making them human. In Brave New World‚ the people are unable to feel sad or upset. The people in Brave New World do not believe in
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2018 Utopian Societies and the Amish Culture In George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ a dystopian society is portrayed through the representation of Russia’s Joseph Stalin by a pig in a farmyard. Comparatively‚ a utopia is a make-believe community that aims to consist of citizens with qualities that are perfect and precise. The word itself was derived from the Greek language‚ meaning “no place”‚ and describes a fictional island society in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia‚ written in 1516. Ideally‚ utopian societies
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Hythloday explains how the founder of Utopia‚ General Utopus‚ conquered the isthmus on which Utopia now stands and through a great public work effort to cut away the land to make an island. Next‚ Hythloday moves to a discussion of Utopian society and how the nation is based on rational thought‚ with communal property‚ great productivity‚ no greedy love of gold‚ no real distinctions between social classes‚ no poverty‚ little crime or immoral behavior‚ religious tolerance‚ and little
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Value of Human Life in Utopian Society Sir Thomas More ’s depiction of a supposedly perfect society in Utopia portrays a quasi-socialist community that has grown under ideal conditions into a successful and working country. It is a society that is drastically different from any society in history‚ both in the past or present. While the principals of the society may be very similar to those espoused by communist doctrine‚ in practice they have worked out successfully which we know was not the
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