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    Neotopia The dictionary definition of a utopian society is “any real or imaginary society‚ place‚ state‚ etc.‚ considered to be perfect or ideal”. I have a proposal for a fictional utopian society that can create a perfect world. The name of this utopia is Neotopia. Neotopia is a worldwide concept that unites the world under one society. The problem our society has is that it is so disconnected and the different countries of the world don’t always get along. Neotopia has a very different view of

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    I believe that Lewis is correct in believing that utopian ideals warp our morality in ways that end in creating catastrophe or dystopia. This theme is evident throughout the books and stories we’ve been reading. Each of the stories had a background in which the dystopia began – they have a reoccurring theme of the creator of the utopia having good intentions for his or her people‚ but carrying out those intentions in a bad way. The person then potentially becomes obsessed with the idea and it controls

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    Critical Analysis Paper: Dystopia Everyone has an ideal world in which they’d want to live in. Of course no one wants to live in a place in which there is violence‚ cruelty‚ bad energy etc. But‚ for some‚ in order to achieve their ideal perfection of a utopia; they must do anything in their power to get close to what they have envisioned there ideal place would be like. Sure‚ some may say there is no such thing as perfection‚ others think otherwise. With variety of opinions whether a utopia can

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    Now‚ what is a Utopia? A Utopia is a place where everything was simply perfect. Now‚ we all have different opinions on how a world would be a Utopia. In my opinion‚ a place would be perfect if ALL living creatures had fair game. An example of fair game is the amount of land both of us have‚ spliting the land roughly 50/50. This is not the only thing that would make a place perfect‚ all of us humans would also like to have equal fairness‚ too! An example of this is when in a court case‚ that the judge

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    We Response Paper We‚ a novel completed in 1920 by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin is considered a dys-Utopia. While a perfect world is described as a Utopia‚ a dystopia is just the opposite. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary‚ Tenth Edition‚ defines a dystopia as “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives” (361). The protagonist of the book is designated as D-503‚ a mathematician‚ and the First Builder of a spaceship known as the Integral. The

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    Lord of the Flies Utopia or Dystopia According to the Oxford American Dictionary‚ a utopia – n – is an imaginary place‚ society‚ or situation where everything is perfect‚ and vice versa‚ a dystopia – n – is a place‚ society‚ or situation in which everything is bad. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ a group of English boys become stranded on an uninhabited island during the midst of a World War. They attempt to form a society to keep the order and civility‚ but through the fear a creature called

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    Utopias are the quest for someone’s perfect society. Usually only one person is happy in a utopia everyone else suffers. Utopias are bad In many utopia there is only one person that does not have it hard. In the story Harrison Bergeron. There is a utopia. The utopia is that everyone is equal. In this quote you will why it is considered a utopia. In this story everyone but one person as to wear something to make them less strong to be equal to someone or something. “Go on rest the bag for a little

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    A dystopia is an imagined world in which everything is unpleasant‚ which is typically an environmentally degraded society. Divergent‚ is a movie based off of the novel series Divergent which was published in 2012. The setting of the movie is based in Chicago at an unknown future date‚ and the main characters are Tris and Four. This movie is an example of a dystopia because the events are not real‚ and it is in an environmentally degraded society‚ where everyone believes that there was a war that

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    Equilibrium Essay How does Equilibrium fulfil the conventions of a dystopic text? In what way does it subvert them? 1000-1500 words. A dystopia is a futuristic and technologically advanced oppressive world with an overbearing totalitarian government who maintain strict authoritarian control over its population. Dystopia’s are often concealed as utopias since everybody appears to be equal and life appears to be fair‚ but in reality freedom is greatly restricted under a dystopia. Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium

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    1984 is a dystopian novel written by English author George Orwell that was published in the June of 1949. Although George Orwell himself called his novel a parody‚ not many consider it to be one. I believe that Orwell’s novel 1984 fits into the category of dystopian fiction and parody. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society while dystopian fiction is the creation of a terrible or tainted society that is generally headed to an irreparable oblivion (dystopia). Unlike a Utopian novel in

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