“Utopia is no place”. How does the Utopian and dystopian fiction you have studied present the possibility of perfection

It is the dream of a just hunting lodge, which seems to refuge the gentlemanity imagination ineradicably and in all ages1. only when supreme purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and idol atomic number 18 beyond human work2. Composers such as more than, Orwell, Huxley and Adeuceod use different avenues and techniques to explore this idea of apotheosis and its feasibility on earth with the human race. Utopian and dystopian metaphor comprises a broad selection of texts but in the narrowest definition any text in which the composer proposes an ideal or nightmarish world or society. The literary cannons of Utopian and Dystopian fiction include Platos Republic, Thomas More and his Utopia responsible for both the generic name and genre creation Aldous Huxleys valiant New World George Orwells 1984 and Animal Farm And Mar admit Atwoodss Hand Maids Tale. Within sepa steply text composers use different presentations of the ideal society to highlight the achievability and zi ng of perfection.Utopia is a story, to be discovered only by trespassing onto an foreign voyage of exploration by Raphael Hythloday, Mores fictional protagonist. Utopia is a prototypical sociological and anthropological study3 into humanity.In book II, More records Raphaels business relationship of life in Utopia as he experienced it. He presents a prescriptive report of social structures of Utopia contrasting it, in the minds of the responders, with his earlier discussions in Book I of the sorry state of the realm of England. Utopia ends, first with a rousing flourish by Hythloday in which he claims Utopia to be the close perfect of societies, followed by Mores assessment that many Utopian policies argon absurd, though there are some he would the sames of to see adopted in Europe4.Utopia sits in the span betwixt worldly realism and philosophical idealism. It is a working society in which there is no evil, but the book can offer no means by which an existing society might be transformed into a Utopian model. Although Utopia is sceptical of aspects of the Utopian society it is still marked by the authors combine in science, reason, and progress.Later works of Utopian fiction saw a shift towards a more pessimistic and cynical view of man, generating the experimental condition dystopian fiction. This has become synonymous with 1984 Brave New World and Handmaids Tale.1984 is a utopia in the form of a young5 meaning like Mores its inception is at a fantastical no place. Orwells Eurasia began with a fancy of a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and neutral concrete6 but quickly turned to a totalistic nightmarish state where even the freedom to say, two plus two make four corroded by the Party, where War is Peace liberty is Slavery and Ignorance is StrengthOrwell presents a bleak picture of a society whose aim at perfection has completely eroded individual rights and freedom. A society where the state wields power for powers sake and honor and trust are a distant hallucination. The society is marked by fear of vapour and un-personification, where individuals movements and thoughts are constantly monitored and controlled by the Party.He too uses the very right ending of the book with Winstons betrayal of Julia, as the final testament to human will. He shows us that to talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for an opposite species7 that perfection is not part of the human essence8Orwells negativity is paralleled by Huxleys Brave New World, a utopian future based on science and technology where forced conformity is exchanged with eugenics and hypnopaedia conditioning. Huxley uses his characters and plots as purveyors of truth reverberating his disillusionment with society and its values. His cynicism and profound pessimism of humanity Human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other is also widely reflected within the text.His v ision of perfection sees the attrition of individuality for the sake of stability requiring the sacrifice of art, science, and religion. Individuality is not only repressed its exterminate before and after birth through various forms of conditioning. He too, like Orwell, concludes his composition with disquieting statement regarding human will, with Johns submission to World show society leading to his suicide.Atwood uses the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state, to also make a comment upon societys flaws. Dangerously low reproduction rate leads to a society with very definitive class distinctions the elites, the Marthas and the handmaids the vessels assigned to adopt fruit for the infertile elites.Atwood suggests, people will endure oppression volitionally as long as they receive some slight descend of power or freedom truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations and this passivity is the factor which enables the for mation of totalitarian states. Again testifying to the limitations of the human character.However Atwood unlike Orwell and Huxley moves towards a heterotopic state at the end of the novel with the protagonist being whisked away to the underground by Nick signifying remnants of accept for humanity.Composers have often within their compositions addressed the human desire for perfection. But numerous works of modern literature have been suspicious not only of the possibility of utopia, but of its very desirability 9 By reflecting on disastrous opposite10 resulting form trying to hold utopia on a grand scale composers have highlighted that Perhaps the great utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible.