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Utopia Is It Possible

Utopia Is It Possible Utopia: remote cabin on the beach, the kingship of a vast empire, Nirvana; Heaven, the Happy Hunting Grounds, paradise, perfection. What exactly is Utopia? According to Webster it is “1, an imaginary and indefinitely remote place” or “ 2, often capitalized : a place of ideal perfection esp. in laws, government, and social conditions”. Where is this perfect place? Will my dog live forever there? Will I never grow old? If I never grow old there does that mean I never mature? What if my idea of perfection differs from my neighbor there, will it still be perfect for both of us? Utopia is a nonexistent, but absolutely perfect place, as we can see from the beginning of the More was one of Henry VIII's main councilors. He fell out of favor with the king when he did not sign a letter urging the pope to divorce Henry and Catherine. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London because his going against the king was treason; he was beheaded. It is strange that a man with such a life, and such an end, was the creator of the perfect world as well as a commonly used word in our language. In his writings Utopia was a place of absolute perfection. He described a poor king who cared more about the riches of his people than his own welfare, much different than the dystopia that he lived his life in. This Utopia of More sounds very similar to that that Gonzalo speaks of in Shakespeare’s Tempest “All things in common nature should produce without sweat or endeavor. Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need for any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth of it own kind, all foison, all abundance, to feed my innocent people”(Shakespeare 334) There have been many attempted Utopias. One of these can be seen in the book Brave New World. This book takes place on earth in the future. In this future everything is dominated by science and technology. There is no Religion or art. The directors of this new world have attempted to make a Utopia in which people are predestined to fit into their "their inescapable social destiny." They feel that this will be better for the people because they will not try for greater things and fail. The new world uses science to "stabilize" society by removing any possibility of free will. They train the people like dogs with “Neo-Pavlovian conditioning” as children. There attempts at a Utopia fail completely and result in total disaster or Dystopia. The population is addicted to a drug that numbs them to the poor quality of life they are living. No one is free or sacred and they have the lives of slaves. To define Utopia, the world in Brave New Brave New World is not alone in failed Utopian Society’s. Fahrenheit 451, The Hand maid's tale, the movies The Beach and Gattica. In Gattica, science as formed an entirely new minority. These people are those that are not genetically enhanced at birth. Parents have the ability to chose the characteristics of their children. Vincent is a “god child” that has a dream of being in space but is not allowed to do so because he isn’t genetically up to it. This alleged utopia that they have formed is not one at all with such prevalent discrimination. In Gattica the attempt at utopia is made in a different way, instead of creating the perfect place to live for people, they create the perfect people to live in the place. In the scene where Vincent and Irene are at the piano concert, the pianist throws his gloves into the crowd. Vincent finds that the gloves have 6 fingers on each hand. Irene laughs at the fact that he didn’t know that the piece of music they just heard could only be played by a 12 fingered man. This shot at the God Child shows that this world is not a Utopia at all for those who are less than perfect. Many Utopias have been attempted in literature. All have failed. Hitler attempted to make his own utopian society but he also failed. The reason that these attempts at utopia have failed is the same reason that they will all fail in the future. It is human nature to seek perfection and because of human limitations, we set ourselves up for failure. By trying to create a Utopia, there will always be an inevitable creation of some sort of dystopia. For this reason the definition of Utopia[from Greek ou not and topos place(no place)] is a non-existant but commonly sought Before we take to sea we walk on land, Before we create we must understand. Bibliography:

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