Synthesis Paper of Utopias
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." In a natural Utopia, an anthill, all of the ants work together to keep the colony alive and functioning without any internal strife. Philosophers, drawn to the conundrum of the perfect world of nature, often wonder why humans cannot create and live in such a world. Instinctually driven, different classes of ants have different jobs and they perform them without any irregularity or preferences. Some travel away from the colony in search of food and supply so as to keep the other ants alive while others work inside the colony repairing and building various things, maintaining the colony in optimum running condition. The Queen Ant, simply the most fecund of the colony, regulates all of the other ants' 'occupations' and takes care of grooming the offspring. In this natural Utopia, each and every one of these ants' jobs enables the entire colony to operate as a smooth-running entity made up of lesser individuals who all contribute their part to the colony. When compared, th!e governing bodies of 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Beach by Alex Garland, operate very
similarly to the hierarchy of an anthill. Foreign and domestic affairs are very much tied to other matters in a Utopia like their belief system(s). ! This ideal society cannot succeed due to human nature and its politics. A human Utopia will always turn into a Dystopia (proven by the history of humans) and to believe otherwise is myopian. The ideology of their belief system, whether a religion or a government, will determine the people's attitude toward persons not of their group and of their group. Humans have often created such places as the 'Final Resting Place' in their religions, Heaven and Nirvana. The general attitude of the populace in these three manuscripts depends on two main points, the education that they received at a young age (when very susceptible and believing) and the constant propaganda that they have to accept because they know not otherwise. However, should one of the 'ants' try to differ from the rest of the faction, or not carry their weight of the tasks at hand, they will become expunged. Humans cannot sacrifice all of the necessary requirements for it to succeed, such as personal gain and desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**I'm Tom Matthews, I'm 16 years old and go to school in Florida. Humans require several things to keep them in line and supporting the one(s) in charge such as entertainment, shelter, a legal system, education and medicine. Not a new idea by any means, Sir Thomas More first coined the word Utopia from two Ancient Greek words, Eutopia (meaning 'good place') and Outopia (Meaning 'no place') in the early 16th century. The politics of 1984, Brave New World, and The Beach seem trifling yet at the same time, very analogous to the politics of the real world.
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