ucation in skills and tastes...Art flourishes. Libraries continue to stock English classics"(Snodgrass 325). In this utopia knowledge is fluent and the thought of each individual is wanted. Love prospers in new Boston as it shows Edith expressing herself towards West. After waking up in new Boston West has been feeling lonely ever since. West has feelings for Edith but does not tell her for he is shy. Due to freedom of expression in new Boston Edith does not feel shy as she expresses her love to West. Edith tells West that she would have told him sooner but was afraid to shock him. “I know girls were expected to hide their feelings in your day, and I was dreadfully afraid of shocking you. Ah me, how hard it must have been for them to have always had to conceal their love like a fault. Why did they think it such a shame to love any one till they had been given permission to fall in love?” (Bellamy 293) This shows how the society feels openly about love. New Boston has no restrictions on love and therefore maintains utopia. With all this great changes that are made from the past from old Boston to the new Boston can be seen as the journey back to the garden of Eden; the very first utopia.On a higher note, Bellamy's Looking Backward is society that maintains utopia where citizens are becoming more and more innocent and thus in biblical terms are going back to the Garden of Eden were violence, greed, and inequality does not exist. As West was in this garden like society he was force to leave when he went to sleep and dreamed he was in old Boston. While West dreams back to old Boston West sees true dystopia of corruption, crimes, greed and inequality. West wants to go back to new Boston; wants to go back to the Garden of Eden. When West once again awakened he is back in the future and is so happy he cries, "I was gasping. The tears were streaming down my face, and I quivered in every nerve"(Bellamy 310). At the end of the nov...
