Essays on Utopia

My utopia would embody a global utopia in which I will create a world that is based on freedom, and equality. We the people of this great utopian society will have power and a voice in the making of our own lives. We the people…

Introduction Can utopia be attained and maintained without suffering or subjugation? This perennial question has garnered the attentions of authors Ursula K. LeGuin and Ewan Morrison in their discourse against the dangers of utopian societies. LeGuin, who wrote the esteemed short story “The One Who…

As soon as there comes the topic about a society, people often tend to view the positive things about it rather than the negative. This is where Utopia and Dystopia makes an entrance, since the positive aspects of a society makes it a Utopian society…

Both the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the populace are manipulated and controlled with the use of technology, however the power of technology is portrayed differently in the two novel. In the novel Brave New World, technology and…

Slavery in Utopia Since the beginnings of civilization, humans have searched for a just and effective way to penalize those that break the laws of society and to deter people from breaking them in the first place. In Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, the Utopian society…

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia during the beginnings of the Reformation as a way of affronting the feudal English society in which he lived. In his book, More represents a society that his main character, Raphael Hythloday, describes as the ideal world. Whether or not…

Introduction The term Utopia was first used in the book Utopia by Thomas More. He was a English Jurist with great carrier and was canonized because he fought for the church. The book Utopia was published in 1516 and it was written in Latin. He…