“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 nightspot, which seems to haunt the gentle imagination ineradicably and in all ages1. But absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond kind-hearted achievement2. Composers such as More, Orwell, Huxley and Atwood use different avenues and techniques to explore this idea of perfection and its feasibility on earth with the human being race.utopian and dystopian manufacturing comprises a broad selection of texts only if 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 severalize and genre creation Aldous Huxleys Brave New World George Orwells 1984 and Animal Farm And Marget Atwoodss Hand Maids Tale. Within each(prenominal) text composers use different presentations of the ideal society to highlight the achievability and desira bility of perfection.Utopia is a story, to be ascertained only by trespassing onto an unknown voyage of exploration by Raphael Hythloday, Mores fictional protagonist. Utopia is a archetypal sociological and anthropological study3 into human being.In book II, More records Raphaels account 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 most perfect of societies, followed by Mores assessment that some(prenominal) Utopian policies are absurd, though there are some he would like to see pick out in Europe4.Utopia sits in the span between worldly pragmatism and philosophical idealism. It is a running(a) society in which there is no evil, but the book can offer no style by which an existing society might be trans divisioned into a Utopian model. Although Utopia is sceptical of aspects of the Utopian society it is still marked by the authors faith in science, reason, and progress.Later works of Utopian fiction saw a shift towards a more pessimistic and cynical view of man, generating the term dystopian fiction. This has become synonymous with 1984 Brave New World and Handmaids Tale.1984 is a utopia in the form of a refreshful5 meaning like Mores its inception is at a fantastical no place. Orwells Eurasia began with a passel of a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete6 but quickly turned to a totalitarian nightmarish state where even the freedom to say, two confirming two make four corroded by the Party, where War is Peace Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is violenceOrwell presents a bleak picture of a society whose aim at perfection has completely eat at individual rights and freedom. A society where the state wields ply for powers sake and truth and trust are a distant hallucination. The society is marked by fear of vaporisation and un-personification, where individuals movements and thoughts are constantly monitored and controlled by the Party.He also uses the very powerful 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 another species7 that perfection is not part of the human essence8Orwells electronegativity is paralleled by Huxleys Brave New World, a utopian future based on science and engine room 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 hallucination on the one hand and lunacy on the other is also widely reflected wi thin the text.His trance 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 kill off before and after birth through various forms of conditioning. He too, like Orwell, concludes his composition with disquieting teaching regarding human will, with Johns submission to World State 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 produce fruit for the infertile elites.Atwood suggests, people will persevere oppression willingly as long as they receive some slight amount 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 whic h enables the formation 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(p) to the underground by Nick signifying remnants of hope for humanity.Composers have often within their compositions addressed the human craving for perfection. But numerous works of modern literature have been suspicious not only of the happening of utopia, but of its very desirability 9 By reflecting on disastrous opposite10 resulting form trying to implement utopia on a grand scale composers have highlighted that Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible.