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The Myopia of Dystopia

stes or social class leads to dystopia and is why it has been removed in new Boston. "There are no privileged few, no overpaid managerial class, and no sexism or slavery delegating dreary jobs to women, nonwhites, or an overburdened subclass" (Snodgrass 324). This quotation shows the benefits of not having class and can be seen in true utopian worlds. Having such classes create dystopia as it did in Brave New World. "It is the worst thing about any system which divides men, or allows them to be divided, into classes and castes, that it weakens the sense of a common humanity"(Bellamy 195). In new Boston the people are seen to be more social do to the fact that they are all equals. As everyone is equal there is no hate between people and crime has been made obsolete by eliminating money.This society strives to correct what is done wrong from the past so they have taken money that causes lust, greed and temptations and done away with it. New Boston has figured out that eliminating money will rid their societal problems dealing with crime. "Result from the inequality in the possessions of individuals; want tempted the poor, lust of greater gains...money was the motive of all crime, the taproot of a vast poison growth"(Bellamy 225). Without crime new Boston is in peace and harmony, "As with other utopias, the Boston of A.D. 2000 is a dream world that suffers no anarchy and subsists in harmony and peace” (Snodgrass 325). Knowledge in this world is available and gladly given. New Boston maintains utopia by not forcing certain knowledge to the children in schools, but offers abundance amount of knowledge. Children acquire knowledge in certain areas of professions and arts. Society gives the young citizens till the age of twenty-one to learn in the area they best wish. This process is affective because the knowledge is not being forced on them that would cause them to take in less. "According to Edith, because of the efficacy of public ed...

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