Pros And Cons Of A Dystopian Society
Quick Write #1: Dystopia/Utopia
1.No, because a utopian society expects too much from everyone in the society. Plus, if someone in the society feels different or wants to rebel against the society’s unity, there could be a fracture in the perfection. People are meant to be special and different, not forced into sameness and conforming to society. There was a study performed on Brain Games, a Television show on National Geographic Channel, where there was a line of 10 people long and the first nine people were hired actors instructed to all pick the same wrong answer. They were in the line to pick out of three lines labeled A, B, and C which one best matched the other lines length that they were shown. They ran multiple versions of this test …show more content…
Even the best leaders of all time, they are a little big headed sometimes, even if it is not that noticeable, but everything counts in a perfect society. For the society to be perfect, the leader would have to be also, which at the moment, is not physically possible. Although it also depends on the society’s version of …show more content…
They wanted to live simple lives, as shown by the black and white colors. For example, we learned that red can insinuate love and anger at the same time, and green can mean peace.
2.She wanted it to all be the same in a utopian society, with very few and limited emotions that come from color. It helped shape the utopian society that she created. She is trying to symbolize that with color, comes wisdom, or vise versa. And famously, teachers have red apples because they are wise, and the first color Jonas sees is on an apple, and is red, so this is what shows that he now is starting to have wisdom and knowledge. Also, the first color in the rainbow is red, so as he starts to see more colors, he goes in the order of the rainbow (maybe) and gains more knowledge as he sees each color. After talking about how Jonas is starting to see color and how he comes to the conclusion that the society should not have let go of color, the Giver says, “Maybe your wisdom will come much more quickly than mine” (Lowry, 95). This proves that as he sees color and gains knowledge from it, he is becoming
1.No, because a utopian society expects too much from everyone in the society. Plus, if someone in the society feels different or wants to rebel against the society’s unity, there could be a fracture in the perfection. People are meant to be special and different, not forced into sameness and conforming to society. There was a study performed on Brain Games, a Television show on National Geographic Channel, where there was a line of 10 people long and the first nine people were hired actors instructed to all pick the same wrong answer. They were in the line to pick out of three lines labeled A, B, and C which one best matched the other lines length that they were shown. They ran multiple versions of this test …show more content…
Even the best leaders of all time, they are a little big headed sometimes, even if it is not that noticeable, but everything counts in a perfect society. For the society to be perfect, the leader would have to be also, which at the moment, is not physically possible. Although it also depends on the society’s version of …show more content…
They wanted to live simple lives, as shown by the black and white colors. For example, we learned that red can insinuate love and anger at the same time, and green can mean peace.
2.She wanted it to all be the same in a utopian society, with very few and limited emotions that come from color. It helped shape the utopian society that she created. She is trying to symbolize that with color, comes wisdom, or vise versa. And famously, teachers have red apples because they are wise, and the first color Jonas sees is on an apple, and is red, so this is what shows that he now is starting to have wisdom and knowledge. Also, the first color in the rainbow is red, so as he starts to see more colors, he goes in the order of the rainbow (maybe) and gains more knowledge as he sees each color. After talking about how Jonas is starting to see color and how he comes to the conclusion that the society should not have let go of color, the Giver says, “Maybe your wisdom will come much more quickly than mine” (Lowry, 95). This proves that as he sees color and gains knowledge from it, he is becoming