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The Myopia of Dystopia

s as a result of King Arthur's influence. Novel shows how one individual tries his whole life striving to achieve utopia. The novel shows that the lifetime of one person is not enough to obtain this utopia as King Arthur has to past his ideas for the future generations. In Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, constructs the perfect utopia where the individual, love, and knowledge are practice unlike the other worlds. Looking Backward, and Once and Future King, did what the other novels did not; it strives for utopia and reaches it, at least for a time. Novels that reach utopia keeps and works the ideas of individualism, love, and knowledge into the society; whereas the dystopian novels eliminate such ideas believing it will lead to utopia.George Orwell presents a world to the reader where there is no chance for a utopia whereas the citizens of that world see their world as a utopia due to telescreens, propaganda and brainwashing that leads to a society of no desires or thoughts. Citizens are not allowed to have personal thoughts or feelings due to the telescreens that destroys the individual mind. Telescreens is a design that is, in every sense, a two way interacting television set that the Party uses to keep people from thinking. A force called the “Thought Police” monitors the telescreens. "Thought police plugged in on any individual wire... in the assumption that every sound you made was over heard"(Orwell 7). We see how this is forced greatly on the people when Winston has to hide himself from telescreens just to write down some of his thoughts. A huge poster with big eyes looms over the people with the perpetual reminder that “Big Brother” is watching them. This is the constant brainwashing the citizens goes trough as they are conditioned at a young ages to love Big Brother and once addicted the party controls them for then on. All the brainwashing of constant propaganda's and telescreen turns the people in t...

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