Essay On Utopian Communities

What is “Utopia”? Is there a utopia in existence in our world today? According to merriam-webster.com, “A utopia is an imaginary place in which the government, laws and social conditions are perfect.” When it comes to a utopia, there are none in existence since a utopia is a community where everything is perfect. Nothing and no one is perfect in life and flaws do exist. The fact that the definition has the word ‘imaginary’ shows that it doesn’t exist. If a perfect utopia existed then everyone would want to live there and be a part of that specific utopia. This whole unit we have been studying utopias and looking at different communities and how they exist. Two of the communities that we studied were the people of Jonestown and another community was the Omelas community. In this paper I hope to explore the differences and similarities between these two communities and if they have aspects
The Peoples Temple was a community led by Jim Jones. This community started out to be very welcoming and the services of the Peoples Temple helped those who had problems with things such as drinking or doing drugs. This community had the essential characteristics for it to be considered a utopia. It had a leader who was very persuasive and was viewed as influential. Trust, togetherness and religion seemed to be common themes that flowed throughout this community. These components were all aspects of what made this community a utopia. Jim Jones preached and one of his messages was that he believed everyone should be included. It was successful because it persuaded people to believe in him, while also giving him their trust. The people’s temple started out as a strong thriving community which was comprised of content individuals; however, it ended with catastrophic results. Many people ended up dying and they never even saw it coming. This proves that this community failed as being seen as a