The Impossible Utopia A Utopian society is defined by Webster's dictionary as an ideal and perfect place or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best. ... Utopia is impossible. ... My own idea of a Utopia would be a place where everyone could live happily and be given a fair chance at life. ... The citizens of Omelas forbid this to happen, and therefore do not allow a Utopia to develop. ... I would walk away from the suffering of the child, and try to make the world a better place outside of the walls of the impossible Utopia known as I like to think of ...

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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. ...

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He introduces characters being highly related to an electronic utopia, this characters consists of deers and flowers. ... Here is when you find the utopia more likely to be a dystopia, and our play in nature. ...

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In the fictitous work of Johnathan Swift in Gulliver's Travel, here he describes and imitates the lives of very different beings. We come to know and experience the lives of the Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, Human Beings in the European world, and Gulliver. The way each being lives is uniquely different...

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World under Control People in every society are controlled through the environment in which they live. The ones who are in control set the standards of what is normal and what is acceptable to be a part of that society. Unfortunately the abuse of power leads to the unlimited use of it. So authorities are willing to go to any extremes to keep control over people in this society. They deprive people of basic human rights to think and act according to their free will. ...

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John Keats "Ode to Psyche" is a lyrical poem that is revealed through a euphoric utopia where ideas and aspirations become the fundamental elements that maintain the human spirit. The persona's perpetual love for the goddess Psyche is clear by way of his proposal to create the perfect life for her....

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Sticks and Stones Today seemed like any other summer day in the eyes of a seven year-old. The sun is shining bright as ever, the air smells of freshly cut grass and the only thing on my mind is how long it will take for me to get to the park. But, unseen through my park-bound mind was the fact...

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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. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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Visual Impairment "The world is dark, and bland. There is nothing and no one that can help me now. I am all alone." As he walked down the street, George Gray thought to himself for a few moments. "Why is the world shaped the way it is? ...

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