1. Utopia vs. Dystopia
Starkly contrasting the dystopia of 1984, is More's Utopia. ... Raphael Hythloday, More's main character in describing Utopia, writes that, "after many days journey, they came to towns, and cities, and to commonwealths, that were both happily governed and well peopled" (More, 1516, p. 24). ... The average citizens of Utopia enjoy much more economic freedom and liberty then their counterparts in Oceania. ... Oceania's economy is more industrially based than Utopia's. ... In Utopia, there "is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no ma...
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