Dystopian

I found this article interesting as it helped me to understand and reclaim the idea of utopia in the 21st century. Reading through this article helped me to understand my theme of utopia and dystopia in literature. I now believe that in the past, everything was worse in quite a few ways, and it is pretty obvious to see that people must have dreamed in the past of a day when things would be better. For this to be true, people living in the past would have to be aware of their relative suffering, which is a problematic assertion. The text helped me to develop a really good understanding of Utopians, and how they believe the soul is immortal and that there exists an afterlife in which the deeds of life are rewarded or punished. They further believe …show more content…
In 1516, Thomas More wrote a novel called ‘Utopia’ where he wrote about his imagination of a complex, self-contained world set on an island, in which communities shared a common culture and way of life. The novel also shows how the utopians contempt for capitalism and those who covet gold. For example, the article relates to this novel and says “There has always been a protectionist element to fictional utopian societies – an interest in building walls and isolating themselves from the wider world – starting with Thomas More’s island of Utopia itself. There the entrance to the harbour by which the island is accessed is narrow, and protected by invisible rocks, lying beneath the water and making navigation perilous to foreigners.” This idea relates shows me that the idea that utopian societies in literature are often difficult to access, and harder still to join and to participate in as a citizen. This idea may relate to the fact that it is extremely hard to find a utopia in real life, and that they are not actually …show more content…
This started when writers back in that time such as Samuel Hartlib, John Dury and the rest of the Hartlib Circle devoted themselves to imagining new futures that could have a really positive impact on people. For example, they firstly wrote about idealized institutions such as schools, universities and libraries, which would give wider access to knowledge and improve humanity’s capacity to understand the world in which it lived. Seventeenth-century utopian writers often rejected the imaginative trappings of utopian fiction, such as the mythical island and the difficult journey, and this is mainly just because they wanted to emphasize the practicality of the ideas they portrayed because they thought this was their opinion on a perfect futurist society and this was the most effective part of the text because it taught me about life how utopia has changed and evolved as time went on. Utopia back then was already a dirty word by that time, used to describe ideas and places that were too good to be true, and peoples visions of a utopian society have changed so much that now people actually believe its too good to be true whereas it used to be an achievable goal. Nowadays people see utopia as a perfect place where no one is hungry and everyone is perfect, and it teaches me about life because I know how the world has changed and I also believe this goal is not

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