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Utopia and Anti-Utopia - A Comparison of Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's 1984

Author : Raoul Festante
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638763218
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and Anti-Utopia - A Comparison of Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's 1984 written by Raoul Festante and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar Universität Hannover), course: Utopias of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: n the following paper I want to examine the relationship between Thomas More ́s Utopia and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. As both these texts offer a wealth of material for interpretation, I want to concentrate mainly on emphasizing the similarities in the desc ription of the political and social systems. I will attempt to underline these very essential resemblances by examining how life in Utopia differs from life in Nineteen Eighty-Four for the individual social being. After reading Utopia for the first time It seemed to me an important question to examine the world of Utopia from a different angle, by comparing it to the opposite, politically charged Anti-Utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In comparing these texts I began to ask myself if Thomas More was actually well ahead of his time in constructing the world of Utopia. Taking Orwell's text into consideration, I felt that there was a striking similarity between the texts although they differed in their criticism and point of departure. What I want to explore in the following pages is to show how the political system of Utopia depends on an unyielding denial of human individuality, a denial that is an essential part of the ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four. My main argument will be that Utopia is not the happy place it wants us to present, but a system of total control and oppression, very similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although different in its overall impression, Utopia leaves a great deal of questions to the reader. The most striking one is, how the Utopia ns themselves evaluate the laws and rules of Utopia. Finally, I will attempt to emphasize the interrelationship and logical consequence of Anti-Utopia

Utopia and Anti-Utopia - A comparison of Thomas More’s Utopia and George Orwell’s 1984

Author : Raoul Festante
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638407063
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and Anti-Utopia - A comparison of Thomas More’s Utopia and George Orwell’s 1984 written by Raoul Festante and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar Universität Hannover), course: Utopias of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: n the following paper I want to examine the relationship between Thomas More ́s Utopia and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. As both these texts offer a wealth of material for interpretation, I want to concentrate mainly on emphasizing the similarities in the desc ription of the political and social systems. I will attempt to underline these very essential resemblances by examining how life in Utopia differs from life in Nineteen Eighty-Four for the individual social being. After reading Utopia for the first time It seemed to me an important question to examine the world of Utopia from a different angle, by comparing it to the opposite, politically charged Anti-Utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In comparing these texts I began to ask myself if Thomas More was actually well ahead of his time in constructing the world of Utopia. Taking Orwell’s text into consideration, I felt that there was a striking similarity between the texts although they differed in their criticism and point of departure. What I want to explore in the following pages is to show how the political system of Utopia depends on an unyielding denial of human individuality, a denial that is an essential part of the ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four. My main argument will be that Utopia is not the happy place it wants us to present, but a system of total control and oppression, very similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although different in its overall impression, Utopia leaves a great deal of questions to the reader. The most striking one is, how the Utopia ns themselves evaluate the laws and rules of Utopia. Finally, I will attempt to emphasize the interrelationship and logical consequence of Anti-Utopia as a possible answer towards Utopian idealism.

Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times

Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780631148739
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times written by Krishan Kumar and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Different Readings of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia - from an Ideal state to the First Dystopia

Author : Jelena Vukadinovic
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640314824
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Different Readings of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia - from an Ideal state to the First Dystopia written by Jelena Vukadinovic and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik), course: Utopian Novels, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to point out some of the main trends in current criticism of More’s Utopia, by presenting and discussing some of the most important theses from the most representative critical writings from each of the aforementioned arches of interpretation. Special attention will be given to the question in how far it is justifiable to read Utopia as a negative concept, albeit even partly, or even as the first dystopia. In order to analyse this, a number of aspects has to be considered first. One has to differentiate between the questions of More’s intentions and modern readers’ point of view on the Utopian commonwealth. Even if More meant his island to be ideal and a blueprint for a new and better society, which is itself already very disputable, it does not necessarily mean that it can still be seen as such. Most modern reader cannot be expected to see Utopia as society which is anywhere near perfect or desirable. Values, of societies as well as individuals, have shifted in their meaning and focus between the era of Tudor England and today. It is also rather questionable in how far the utopian society would have appeared as ideal to More’s contemporaries, especially in regard to its communism and its religious practices.

Thomas More’s Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736808224
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Thomas More’s Utopia written by Thomas More and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. There is no private property on Utopia, with goods being stored in warehouses and people requesting what they need. There are also no locks on the doors of the houses, which are rotated between the citizens every ten years. Agriculture is the most important job on the island. Every person is taught it and must live in the countryside, farming for two years at a time, with women doing the same work as men. Parallel to this, every citizen must learn at least one of the other essential trades: weaving (mainly done by the women), carpentry, metalsmithing and masonry. There is deliberate simplicity about these trades; for instance, all people wear the same types of simple clothes and there are no dressmakers making fine apparel. All able-bodied citizens must work; thus unemployment is eradicated, and the length of the working day can be minimised: the people only have to work six hours a day (although many willingly work for longer). More does allow scholars in his society to become the ruling officials or priests, people picked during their primary education for their ability to learn. All other citizens are however encouraged to apply themselves to learning in their leisure time. Slavery is a feature of Utopian life and it is reported that every household has two slaves. The slaves are either from other countries or are the Utopian criminals. These criminals are weighed down with chains made out of gold. The gold is part of the community wealth of the country, and fettering criminals with it or using it for shameful things like chamber pots gives the citizens a healthy dislike of it. It also makes it difficult to steal as it is in plain view. The wealth, though, is of little importance and is only good for buying commodities from foreign nations or bribing these nations to fight each other. Slaves are periodically released for good behaviour. Jewels are worn by children, who finally give them up as they mature. Other significant innovations of Utopia include: a welfare state with free hospitals, euthanasia permissible by the state, priests being allowed to marry, divorce permitted, premarital sex punished by a lifetime of enforced celibacy and adultery being punished by enslavement. Meals are taken in community dining halls and the job of feeding the population is given to a different household in turn. Although all are fed the same, Raphael explains that the old and the administrators are given the best of the food. Travel on the island is only permitted with an internal passport and any people found without a passport are, on a first occasion, returned in disgrace, but after a second offence they are placed in slavery. In addition, there are no lawyers and the law is made deliberately simple, as all should understand it.

A Dream of John Ball Illustrated

Author : William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book A Dream of John Ball Illustrated written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

The Prince & Utopia

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince & Utopia written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the seventeenth century, the name Machiavelli (since The Prince’s publication in 1532) had become synonymous with diabolical cunning, a meaning that it still carries today. Аt the same time Sir Thomas More (1477 - 1535) was the first person to write of a 'utopia', a word used to describe a perfect imaginary world. And it was only in this book that such different works came together to provide the reader with the opportunity to judge these contradictory contemporaries.

Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500868710
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas More's Utopia is a masterpiece of Renaissance political philosophy, responsible for introducing the term 'utopia' and spawning an entire genre of 'utopian' and 'dystopian' literature. In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.

Epitaph Road

Author : David Patneaude
Publisher : Egmont USA
ISBN 13 : 1606842943
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Epitaph Road written by David Patneaude and published by Egmont USA. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of such massive despair, women were forced to take over control of the planet--and in doing so they eliminated all of Earth's most pressing issues. Poverty, crime, warfare, hunger . . . all gone. But there's a price to pay for this new "utopia," which fourteen-year-old Kellen is all too familiar with. Every day, he deals with life as part of a tiny minority that is purposefully kept subservient and small in numbers. His career choices and relationship options are severely limited and controlled. He also lives under the threat of scattered recurrences of the plague, which seem to pop up wherever small pockets of men begin to regroup and grow in numbers. And then one day, his mother's boss, an iconic political figure, shows up at his home. Kellen overhears something he shouldn't--another outbreak seems to be headed for Afterlight, the rural community where his father and a small group of men live separately from the female-dominated society. Along with a few other suspicious events, like the mysterious disappearances of Kellen's progressive teacher and his Aunt Paige, Kellen is starting to wonder whether the plague recurrences are even accidental. No matter what the truth is, Kellen cares only about one thing--he has to save his father.

Thomas More and His Utopia

Author : Karl Kautsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thomas More and His Utopia written by Karl Kautsky and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
ISBN 13 : 3753145130
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell and published by epubli. This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Author : Eugene Richter
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610163699
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of the Socialistic Future written by Eugene Richter and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1925 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Utopian Vision

Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Utopian Vision written by Saint Thomas More and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Erewhon Revisited

Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734084806
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Erewhon Revisited written by Samuel Butler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler

De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia

Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521403184
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia written by Saint Thomas More and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since 1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and also the first edition to provide a Latin text that is both accurate and readable. The text is based on the early editions (with the Froben edition of March 1518 as copy-text), but spelling and punctuation have been regularized in accordance with modern practices. The translation is a revised version of the acclaimed lively and readable Adams translation, which also appears in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This edition, which incorporates the results of recent Utopian scholarship, also includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the voluminous scholarly and critical literature on Utopia.

The Utopian Thought of St. Thomas More and Its Development in Literature

Author : Mardelle L. Fortier
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Utopian Thought of St. Thomas More and Its Development in Literature written by Mardelle L. Fortier and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of St Thomas More's philosophy concerning the conflict of Reason and Power in Book One of Utopia. Most scholarly research has been devoted to Book Two, the vision of the Utopian society itself. The philosophical conflict between Reason and Power discussed by Thomas More is also the central problem in various Utopian literary works setting forth scientific, humanistic, collectivist, New Age, and natural Utopias. The study concludes that the evil in Man's human nature, expressed in abuses of power, places limits upon Man's ability to achieve happiness and prosperity in a Utopia.

Intellectuals, Utopian Dreams, and the Question of Human Rights in China

Author : Mab Huang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758089X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Intellectuals, Utopian Dreams, and the Question of Human Rights in China written by Mab Huang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together 13 papers published by the author over the past 50 years, arranged chronologically, so the reader can follow the unfolding development of the author’s thinking on the issues discussed here. The essays primarily investigate the role intellectuals in the dramatic changes in China since the fall of the old imperial order, with an emphasis on the tension between the urge towards utopian dreams and the quest for human rights and democracy. The earlier pieces are two chapters from the author’s 1969 Columbia University PhD dissertation dealing with the Chinese Communist Party leadership methods and the conflict between the Party and the peasants during the time of the People’s Commune Movement. Several other essays on the question of human rights date from the 1980s and 1990s. The last two essays go beyond China to take up the debate on Asian values and the concept of peace in Asia. Given the unique perspective which differs from that of the ruling party and government in China, as well as the usual political realist perspective of the Western press, this book will contribute to a better understanding of the complex and entangled role of the intellectuals and the political process on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. It will be helpful to both the academic community and the well-educated general public.