Utopian Society Research Paper

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A perfect world we all would like to have one, but it’s hard to do. Society is never perfect, it will always have it’s problems. Problems separate society from society so everything is not the same, and you don’t get bored with it. Problems make the world interesting. Living with freedom, has it’s benefits. Imagine, feeling love, feeling pain, so you don’t mess up again, seeing the beauty of the world. It’s important to realise that in a Utopian society basically has emotions, colors, even the freedom to chose is taken from you. Living in a democratic society is the better option than everything being perfect in the world. The feeling of love, it’s taken away in a Utopian society. That rush of emotion when you see a certain person, the …show more content…

Pain is that feeling that happens when you scrape your knee or you smash your hand in a car door, and you learn so you don’t do it again so you don’t experience pain once more. The feeling doesn’t last long in a Utopian society because they take pills for that as well as shown during Jonas’ training on page 104 in The Giver “He sat, and looked at his own leg, where it lay straight on the bed, unbroken. The brutal slice of pain was gone. But the leg ached horribly, still, and his face felt raw. “May I have a relief of pain please?” he begged. It was was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for a mashed finger, a stomach ache, skinned knee from a fall from a bike. There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance. But The Giver said no, and looked away” This is what it is to have no pain and when people in a community like this are finally revealed to real world pain that comes with everyday life they can’t handle it, it hurts to bad. Seeing the beauty of the world, the colors of the world are taken away in a utopian society. They believe to have a perfect world all you can see are shades of gray. It states on page 91 in chapter 12 of The Giver that “The Giver shrugged “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to sameness. Before my time , back and back and back. We relinquished

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