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The Dispossessed
Analytical Essay # 11882
The Dispossessed
Critical review of utopian science fiction novel by Ursula A Le Guin, & contradictions inherent in creating perfect society.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
1 source |
1996
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"Works of utopian fiction have generally either failed as literature, or have succeeded only at the price of partially subverting the author's intent. The reason may be found in what the proverb that happy is the country that has no history, and its counterpart, reputed to be an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Good fiction is founded upon conflict, and conflict is precisely what is generally banished from conceptions of an ideal society. Just as one cannot write a very gripping domestic drama about a happy, placid society, so one cannot write a gripping social drama about a happy, placid society.The temptation of the skilled utopian writer, then, is to create a counterpoint society to the ideal one, a corrupted society, and to place the two in conflict. The danger in this..."
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