The quotations of Shakespeare throughout the duration of the book also emphasize the emotionless society of the World State. ... No more unrequited loves or broken hearts, no more family feuds, no more saddening death, no more passionate crimes; This utopian world is stable, but it is not full of what touches most audiences when reading Shakespeare, and consequently they cannot be introduced to it. Shakespeare and his works point out many specific aspects of this "utopian- society. The lack of emotion and unfamiliarity of the citizens with ideas that touch people in our society to the greate...

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In society, humans are often found taking advantage of others to gain absolute control/ power, it is human nature. ... The success of the animal's rebellion to kick out their human oppressor, Jones, would instead leave them to be overrun by Napoleon, Squealer and the pigs who over time develop actions indistinguishable from their human enemies, skewing the utopian society into a totalitarian state. ... Since this is what Squealer believes, the animals shall too. Squealer asks, "Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? ... The ability to manipulate is what marks grea...

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In 1775, the Philadelphia Quakers founded the world's first antislavery society, proving that the dispense of slavery was indeed possible, causing the country to dream of a utopian society. ... But it was a model of what a loose confederation should be, and was a significant stepping-stone towards the establishment of the U.S. ... - What were the major compromises made at the Constitutional Convention? ... Whatever these leaders' personal desires, they had to compromise and adopt what was acceptable to the entirety of America, and what presumably would be suitable to the nat...

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He saw "socialism- as being a pacific term veering more towards Utopian ideas, while "communism- was a more militant word, implying the revolutionary concept of the abolition of private property, echoed by the Parisian Commune back in 1793. ... In this early stage of communism, there was no private property, no classes or privileged elite and what we now know as the family. ... From this barbarism period emerged the slave society. The slave society actually had its roots in the barbarism society. ... Thus the world has witnessed the finished circle, the final product of our society, a co...

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What are the differing views on this ideology, and more importantly how are they relevant to today's society? ... First, European history professor and author Carl Landauer expresses the idea that anarchism is simply a utopian way of thinking. In his work European Socialism, Landauer claims government is a "lesser evil" than a society without "repressive force.... A political philosophy that believes everyone should be allowed to do what ever he wants is by its nature a very unstable philosophy. ... Perhaps the world is just not ready for anarchy, or perhaps anarchists sim...

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Postmodernist take any statement or subject and pull it apart to try and figure out what they think the true meaning is. They also tend to pull things apart and say that they have more than one meaning as opposed to what is stated. ... The grand narrative is the idea that capitalism will collapse in on itself and a utopian socialist world will be created. ... In the postmodern society, knowledge becomes functional. ... These people declare that what is out there is only what we put out there. ...

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Marx may have had a slightly different idea of what exactly the study of dialectics was, but as I pointed out so did both Plato and Aristotle. ... Wealth was the internal struggle as he saw it, because it determined the way the people would act, and thus what government they would choose to rule. ... They all carried the same basic idea endorsed by their founding father, Lenin, who put out documents saying that third world countries could revolt and still end up with a wonderful utopian government. ... They saw the USSR as the only example of what communism accomplished, and it was bad. .....

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The zombie renaissance creates vulnerability in our society that serves as a powerful metaphor for social anxiety. ... (1) Romero expresses his view that society itself will inevitably fail because humans can only consume. ... These constructions fail to create a true society for these three survivors to provide themselves with a new identity and life. ... He, more than Stephen and Fran, visions the mall as a utopian paradise and has no desire to change anything. ... What is the government testing and hiding from us? ...

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Civilization masks a tragic reality with a utopian ideal. ... Freud traces all actions and instincts back to "sexual instinct" or what Freud refers to as libido and "aggressive instinct" (within the individual). ... According to society, individuality is considered non-productive as it inhibits the forwarding of society in terms of work. ... It is all that they've ever done and they don't question what they do. ... How many a time does one hear, "My computer crashed, what am I going to do now?" ...

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Jacksonian democrats believed that they were guardians of the Constitution and that they upheld its principles and defended its ideals of a democratic society. ... Upward mobility was what America was known for, and they believed that was one of the better aspects of America and should be preserved at all costs. ... European thinkers had only hypothesized situations where a seemingly utopian society in which every man had equal rights. Yet, with possible help from the influence of Native American culture, the United States had created a society with radically equal economic and political setti...

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The Handmaids Tale In the Novel "The Handmaids Tale" the narrator, Offred, guides us through a futuristic, post American, society governed by theocracy. ... This quote has a number of meanings, both in the immediate context, about Gilead, and society as a whole. ... Because the body operates in a very democratic fashion, the "democracy of bodily functions" is a sharp contrast to how things work in a totalitarian society. ... Because everything which comes into the body is diffused into the blood, every cell in the body receives an equal share (in this aspect at least, the body also beco...

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If you have crucial issues, burning issues, it's good to say exactly what's right and wrong about them, and then perhaps to show a way that things could be helped. ... Holzer's truisms "Money Creates Taste", 1982 " and "Protect Me From What I Want", 1985" are part of her 1983-85 series, Survival". ... The main focus of these works was to make a profound statement about the world of advertising and consumer society today. ... "Money Creates taste"" is almost a plea from Holzer to stand back and assess our needs as a culture rather than what we are fed to believe we want by the me...

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But what can make this triple-life balance even more of a challenge is when intellectuality is the cog that causes the machine to run slower and less efficient. ... If having control over one's desires is something to be practiced, it is clear that even just these two simple expectations are a case only of a utopian society. ... What good is a non-interactive static textbook that can never be updated and is next to worthless within the span of just five years? ... By merely looking into the current status and origin of banking education, this way of connecting to students, if it can even ...

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Both Huxley and Scott use aspects of their style to show the lack of importance, that both societies have on the natural world which does not only include the physical landscape but also what considered natural nowadays like birth, motherhood, family and of course love. ... The elements of the styles of both texts which show how weak this relationship between humanity and the natural world are for Brave New World using Shakespeare, satire, the anti-utopian genre, language, persuasion and propaganda, contrast and duality of character. ... Brave New World is contrasted with our own modern societ...

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This can be seen through the masque and Gonzalo's utopian vision in The Tempest, and through George Frankland's attitude (1835) towards the beauty of Tasmania's central highlands in The Explorers. ... The Romantic Period in which he lived perhaps influenced Frankland's reaction, which signifies a respect for nature, and an enjoyment of what it has to offer, which was lacking in the earlier reports of Cook and Carstenz. ... Gonzalo sees the shipwreck as an opportunity to rebuild civilisation, creating a society that is more just, and has respect for nature as a core value ...

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As one may evaluate, investigate, and study these issues and concerns addressed by many people in our world, it should be apparent what should be done to correct the incorrect in order to form a world which does not classify itself into three worlds, but instead into one world. ... In other words, the present does not think ahead on how what they are doing may or may not be damaging to the people of future generations. ... Society should take action and liability to deal with their environment, and clean up the pollution they distribute throughout their cities, towns and neighborhoods. ... ...

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Due to the problems caused by alienation and exploitation, Marx introduced the idea of socialism, that which he believed was a society that served the individual needs of man. ... Socialism: Alienation is one of the central concepts in Marx's philosophy, providing an analysis of what is perceived to be an essential feature of the capitalist way of production and how it relates to humans. ... Marx was not the first philosopher that suggested socialism but he did differ from other philosophers by moving away from the unrealistic expectations of a utopian civilization and the desire and a...

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The winning of this class war was Mark's utopian fantasy, so while Lenin and Trotsky tried to figure out what to do after winning the social war, Stalin was eventually allowed to rise to power. ... In Stalin's Russia, his regime of totalitarianism controlled every aspect of Russian society. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. ... Hitler despised all things liberal because it focuses on the individual, and he wanted society to not be made up of individuals but of one single body...

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This potential technology is frightening, as even the most astute scientists cannot fully explain just what this new technology may mean for the world. ... There has also been interest from technophiles who herald this potential development as a step towards a utopian society, and endless life. ... and others like it, pose interesting dilemmas as we do not yet know what "it" is. ... Their conclusions focus around a nanofactory's control over what it may make, and how it may replicate (the controls inherent in the parent factory must be passed to the child clone). An example of this contro...

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Born in 1955, Shoko Asahara, then known as Chizuo Matsumoto, founded Aum Shinrikyo, a movement that focused on the creation of an ideal society through spirituality. The goal to create an ideal society emerged from the concern that the world was going to end due to a chemical or nuclear war. ... If they themselves understood repression by society, it perhaps was not too difficult to extend the source of that repression to the government either. ... Since, the society that was set up by the West was materialistic, changes needed to be made and Asahara promised his members a new world. ... ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? ... What better place and time for Walt Disney to introduce his theme park? ... Historian Warren Susman stressed the importance of Disneyland as an American cultural achievement, an "extraordinary effort to create a collective representation of a utopian and idea! ... Disneyland provided a "common culture for a pluralistic society" and the new age of leisure allowed Americans to bask in its idealism (119). ... Hobby shops and do-it-yourself kits flourished during the 1950s as Americans utilize...

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In 1905 two student revolutionary groups in Japan allied themselves with Sun Yat Sen's Revive China Society to form the Tongmenhui. ... The Tongmenhui received support from elite sections of society and their were eight uprisings between 1906 and 1911. ... "Sun Yat Sen not only confirmed their (peoples) discontent, but also set before them a vision of gains which revolution should bring to China and the ideal society which should be built from the ruins of empire" It is argued though whether Sun's influence in the 1911 revolution was strong. ... Many say that Sun's lack of ...

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But in a genre which has always been dominated by the male hero narrative, what role have women had to play? ... Firstly looking at a brief history of science fiction film, and what sorts of role women had in the films. ... In the 1980s, dystopias, the opposite of the utopian perfect' or idealized societies, were common, with Bladerunner, Brazil, which was released in 1985, and in various Robocop and Terminator type films. ... With the introduction of Freud and psychoanalysis, came a new way of looking at women not in film and cinema, but in society as well. ...

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In modern society, we see coaches, inventors, CEO's have a singular focus that causes them to lose track of their morals, ethics, and/or families. ... Dorian was the antithesis of what the civilized Western culture's ethics represented. ... But Harry's narcissism and philosophies on life are what pushed Dorian Gray into the treacherous being that he became. ... I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations"(213 Wilde). ... Those same narcissistic beliefs are what cause Dorian to become an evil being (Gillespie...

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Also from this era, self-labeled experimental farmer, utopian social critic and best-selling author Edward Faulkner is remembered for his 1943 book Plowman's Folly and his ideas about permanent agriculture. ... Faulkner's proposition was to incorporate large amounts of organic material (weeds, crop residues, green manures) into the soil to rebuild it much as ancient peasant agricultural societies had done for centuries. ... What good was it, he asked, to grow food without using chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and then to process that food so that its content of vitamins and miner...

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