every culture has strived to achieve a Utopian society. A Utopian society is basically a society‚ which has surpassed aggression‚ war‚ hate‚ and crime while establishing "peaceful" and orderly communities. A Utopian society could not exist with the individuality that nature has bestowed on the human race. So long as humans remain unique in their state of mind‚ utopia is a mere fantasy. To work around this problem a society must adapt itself to achieve a utopian-like state. This can be achieved by one
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Introduction In the 19th Century‚ the Utopian communities were taken to be the representatives of human civilization due to the activities they conducted. They are said to have charismatic leaders who upheld religious or secular moral ideals. The communities were engaged into different modes of government‚ labor‚ marriage and wealth. Utopias in America shared a particular goal that strived for the crucial step from the wilderness to a new social order. The Communities with European origins focused
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language converted the meaning of utopia as a place or state where everything is perfect. Utopian societies are a fresh start‚ a way to start over. They look at society and see what is wrong with it and try to create a perfect place without all the faults that society has. Several people came to the Americas in hopes of a religious utopia. Several new religions branched and many movements were sparked from utopian societies. An example would be the Shakers branching out from the Quakers. They believed
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Plato’s Republic discusses the philosophical notion regarding the creation of “the perfect utopian society” without injustices‚ domination and oppression. In the book‚ Plato states that the perfect utopian society is just‚ filled with people who do things they are fitted to do who also don’t do the things they believe they’re not fitted to do. Plato believes that what makes a man just‚ in accordance with the narration of Cephalus‚ is a combination of the qualities of having a cultured orderly personality
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Utopia society‚ a society that is perfect in every way. The city of Omelas is described as this fairy tale and magical place. The narrator gives details of the city that has no organized church‚ they do not engage in war‚ no guilt and they feel joy through each other’s energy. Then the narrator turns it on the reader to add anything to his or her own fantasy world‚ so that the reader is able to make a connection to this magical world she is describing. Le Guin‚ the author‚ makes a suggestion that
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Blake’s Utopian Ideas The utopian desire of these poems is experience and what experience is. The poem I will be referring to is The Human Abstract. I firmly believe that experience is something you gain‚ and something you never lose. Experience‚ to me‚ means one that has been through something. It gives you knowledge about that particular event. In the poem The Human Abstract‚ Blake states “Pity would be no more‚ if we did not make people poor” (Lines 1-2). Which says to me‚ that in a utopian society
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universe. Some may say that Utopias can exist‚ however it is significantly unlikely due to human nature‚ economics‚ and the government‚ but may become a possibility considering the fact that humans contain the capacity to evolve. One reason that a Utopian society is not possible is due to human nature. A society where conflicts are limited is quite impossible because humans may be ignorant to realize their mistakes and attain knowledge from them. Many people believe that utopias are doomed to fail
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freedom and happiness. In the Utopia‚ the Utopian government strive to fulfill and optimize the benefits and happiness of Utopian citizens. Reasonably‚ people would describe a safe and happy government as domestically stable and diplomatically powerful so that it obtains admiration and fear from both its citizens and surrounding countries‚ thus enabling its citizens to live with freedom and pursue the ultimate happiness. However‚ although the images of Utopian government are attractive and appealing
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The election of 1860 was one of the most controversial times in American history‚ and there were only four main candidates. The candidates included Abraham Lincoln‚ who was a Republican‚ Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge‚ who were Democrats‚ and John Bell who was a member of the Constitutional Union. All had a disagreement about the topic of slavery‚ which was an important issue in the colonies. Little did they know that this controversial topic would cause states to begin seceding‚ forming another
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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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