hildren while still young so when older they are not "The most important thing, will be to catch them young. The old knights, the ones we are fighting against, will be mostly too old to learn. We must breed up a new generation of chivalry for the future"(White 265). Arthur’s dream of utopia is shattered when the Orkney boys with Arthur’s own son, who have been taught the old ways of deceit and hypocrisy, challenge Arthur’s authority. Dystopia came upon the society that Arthur tries so hard to maintain. All of Arthur's ideas and values are suddenly at the brink of extinction. King Arthur's last hopes for his society is to pass his ideas to a young page named Tom before his death. "You see, the King wanted there to be somebody left, who would remember their famous idea" (White 636). Tom was told of all the ideas of Arthur's utopia and hopes in day that the society once again will rise again. King Arthur’s society, unlike those in Brave new world, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 truly achieves a utopian state for a time; however, it is all too quickly lost. In Looking Backward present a world like no other where there is no chance of corruption as in King Arthur's society.Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, takes a dystopian world and changes it around to the perfect utopia were hunger, war, and hate no longer exist but instead knowledge, individual, and love endures. The world Julian lives in contains war, hunger, crime, and has many disputes. Julian never thinks about this distopic world because he and his family are wealthy, and enjoy the comforts of being so well off. West goes to sleep one day and wakes up in the twentieth-century after being in a suspended trance. Mr. Leete brings West out of this trance and becomes his guide to utopia. West learns through Mr. Leete about the past Boston, which has changed in to the last millennium. Boston in the twentieth-century takes care of the individuals and allows them to form ...
