ns for eradicating love is simple, love and loyalty tend to cause people to be loyal to someone , other then their country or government. Love is also distracting, and would disrupt the carefully structured balance of the society. Unlike Brave New World, Utopians aim at trying to preserve love between the partners in a marriage. Slavery is sentenced upon those that have disgraced their marriage, the guilty are made infamous, and never allowed to marry again. In Utopia, love is by far one of the societies most profound feelings. The society in Utopia feels that love, and marriage is very important parts of their society. The citizens of Utopia try and maintain and even increase the importance of love, instead of trying to erase or eradicate love. Marriage is one of the most important events to Utopians. When someone is serving time as a slave, they lose all their rights, except for marriage (love), which is to the Utopians, an important right. Utopians are not allowed to engage in sexual intercourse before they are married. Attempted seduction is treated just the same, and no less of a crime then seduction. This shows the absolute importance of love to the Utopians. Their women are not married before eighteen, nor their men before two-and-twenty if earlier, punishment will be warranted. Utopians enforce strict laws upon marriage simply because marriage, which is symbolic of love, is important to them. Utopians enforce a strict minimum age for marriage, so that love will be honored and respected amongst members in a marriage. Divorce is forbidden, but in certain cases, if there is no other choice, they may receive a royal pardon from the Prince. The reasons for forbidding divorce in a marriage is simply because love is of utmost importance to Utopians. Another difference in the two societies is religion. The people of Utopia are free to worship any God they chose. There are many different forms of religion throughout the island, and in...
