In BNW, this is brought to us by a reflected image of our reality through an utopia world. ... From the mass' point of view, the purely brainwashed individuals of this utopia world, the questions raised by the social disturbers are fool questions because they are not answerable by the so "obvious" answers they possess and that everybody else does. ... On this level, there is a difference with Brave New World because the life of each individual living in the utopia is totally meaningless. ... From these observations, we can conclude that Brave New World and The Lottery have a common theme:...

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Some prefer themes of war, love, lust, etc. Personally, I do not have a specific theme that I call my favorite. ... Le Guin initially places us in a perfect town, a utopia. ... As for those who stand aside, they can still live as if nothing is wrong, living in a utopia. ...

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A theme found in Lost Horizon is the desire to leave and apparent utopia in favor of a former home, however flawed. ... The inclusion of a character like Mallinson raises many questions about what exactly makes a utopia. ... Does Lost Horizon's Shangri-la embody what you believe is a utopia? ...

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These two themes are heavily concentrated on though these two stories are similar on the aspects of themes, though they differ on thethoughts of civilization and governments. ... Emerson uses the themes of Nature and God to represent and reflect nature as transcendentalism. ... The two themes are used at once to direct the story in the path that the Thoreau wants it to lead. ... The similarities are so stressed in these articles it is difficult to see them as ...

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In his novel "1984", George Orwell creates a society where all decency, integrity, individuality, and consciousness has been destroyed and abolished from existence in order to obtain a "so-called" utopia. Therefore, according to Orwell, utopia in this sense means "a society in which the relationships between individuals and the state are perfectly adjusted for." Torture and brainwashing is what Orwell believes are the ideal methods for achieving this perfect society or utopia. ... Oppression in the novel, resulting from two main themes of poverty and politics, is made quite evident from the ...

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The dystopian theme, "society is divided into castes or groups with specialized functions" is supported well by the novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. ... All-day and everyday, the animals would work like, as it said, slaves, which is really an important word and theme in the book. ... Utopia is impossible to achieve when there are slaves, and the fear that the higher social class of the pigs imposed on the other animals contributes to the utopian vision truly being a dystopia. ... The book shows that in a society divided into social classes and without equality, utopia can'...

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The most prevalent themes in Brave New World are centered around the industrial and economic systems in novel, and how technology has brought the advancements of these themes to fruition. ... Consumerism and productivism are the purpose of life in Huxley's industrial utopia. ... However, a Technopoly, utterly destroys the existence of these worlds, and this is the state of Huxley's utopia. ...

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He wrote a book named Utopia, in which he described a perfect community and indirectly lashed out his criticism. ... The religious themes were no longer the only main subject of arts. The main theme of arts in Renaissance was realism, besides humanism. ...

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The theme of totalitarianism is a prominent theme in this 20th century novel. 1984 by George Orwell features a futuristic dictatorship where humanity is controlled by the government. ... The Party alters the past to deceive its citizens and allow them a sense of utopia. ...

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"Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely"; and this is clearly proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable with great symbolic value. As Orwell explained himself: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong". The novel can be seen as the historical analysis...

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This time period seemed very intriguing, with a culture that has reached a state of utopia, or so it would seem. ... The theme of the story in my opinion is do not worry about the future, make it through the present. ...

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In life I have often dreamed of a utopia, a place or state where I may be happy with absolutely no worries. To some it may not exist, but I believe I have experienced it at one point in my like. You see, I met the girl of my dreams...although I never looked at her that way when I first met her bec...

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In a complex work such as 1984, there are numerous structural relationships upon which the author bases his central themes and ideas. ... The Party's altering of the past in order to deceive its citizens and create in them a sense of utopia is designed to reveal the conflict between truth and the mutability of truth. Obviously the most important theme of the novel centers around the evils of totalitarianism. ...

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If a person constantly reads books that have the same type of theme, they will most likely start to look for things related to what they're reading in their books, in their everyday lives. ... In, "Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert, the ways in which Emma was affected by the tales of romance and utopias that she read from her books deeply molded her into an impatient, bratty, foolish, and unrealistic woman, who essentially dug her own grave. ... Emma was reading these books that contained the romantic themes that she loved so much way before she even met Charles. ...

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Modern society is always striving for perfection. We develop new technology, make new discoveries, and even fight wars just to keep our people happy. No matter how perfect we make this world, though, there will always be something bad behind it all. The perfection of something usually relies on the ...

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"Truman Burbank", a man who lives a simple perfect life without knowing that he is the star of a reality television program. Millions of people around the world tune in daily and have watched him moment by moment since birth and even until today by thousands of hidden cameras planted in biggest stud...

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This capability of emotion then can also be man's destruction, a theme thoroughly illustrated throughout Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. ... The Houyhnhm culture really is a nowhere, as what the word utopia means in Greek. ...

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The book Brave New World is author Huxley's shocking vision of a future utopia, which deals with the philosophical and ethical controversies brought by advances in technology and science. ... One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. ...

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