Utopias in Literature

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This paper examines the concept of utopias and discusses the idea of utopia in literature. The paper first describes the primary rationale for the utopia and provides examples of its application through the writings of many different authors. The paper then describes the key desires of those seeking utopia and how they can go about achieving it according to the authors examined in the paper.

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"Dana may have a different view of her "normal" life in the twentieth century, but she is still infused with the need for change, perhaps even more now that she has seen the beginnings of the way she and her people are treated and also because she knows how she is related to that past and its crimes through Rufus. Part of the utopic vision is not to settle for better but always to seek to improve society, and this remains a key desire now that she has a better understanding of the past, showing her more about the way to a better future."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ames, Russell. Citizen Thomas More and His Utopia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949.
• Butler, Octavia E., Kindred. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.
• Maynard, Theodore. Humanist as Hero: The Life of Sir Thomas More. Ne York: Macmillan, 1947.
• More, Thomas. Utopia (Donald Wootton, ed.). Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett, 1999.
• Morgan, Arthur E. Nowhere Was Somewhere. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946.

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