el Bellamy puts a picture in the readers mind were West and Edith represent Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden. "Edith, fresh as the morning, had come into the garden and was gathering flowers. I hastened to descend to her. Kneeling before her, with my face in the dust, I confessed with tears how little was my worth to breath the air of this golden century"(Bellamy 311). This shows that new Boston will continue to be a utopia.Hubris is excessive pride that the closed minded societies have shown in 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 where they only see utopia when they take away knowledge, individuality, and love which in turn causes dystopia. The quest for Utopia was found in all the novels, but only two made it and the rest became dystopia ironically still believing it was utopia. When great societies try to obtain utopia they become blind to their own mistakes. People and societies get wrapped up in trying to reach too far with their hands and end up losing their heads and forget that the means do not justify the ends. This is why TH. White's Once and Future King and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards were able to create their utopian societies. King Arthur's society did not eliminate all the things that caused dystopia but mixed them into his society by the new ways and old ways. In new Boston they achieve their utopia by not just eliminating but reconstructing their society from the wrongs of the previous society. All the novels have dreams of utopia and that may be their success or downfall. ...
