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- 1. Utopia BY: STEPHANIE, AUTUMN, AND JANA
- 2. What is a Utopian Society? How Does a Utopian Society Work? - A utopian society is a society that is perfect - Different opinions of how a utopian society would work - Creator of the idea of Utopia was Thomas More - The view of Robert Owen’s utopia would have been that workers have better quality life. He mainly focused of human rights, equality and democracy. He had a specific vision of how education would be given to children. His vision was that students only went to school for five years, ages five to ten, and enrolment would be free. The subjects that the children would learn would have been, reading, writing, and math.
- 3. Analyses of Utopia - Greek word “ou-topos” means “nowhere” or “no-place” - Similar Greek word, “eu-topos” means “good place” - The word Utopia, is a combination of “ou-topos” and “eu-topos” meaning Utopia is a good place but isn’t real. - “Utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities” (
- 4. Explanation of Utopia Utopia is a complex, self-contained world. This is what Thomas More imagined, a world of peace. By publishing a book called Utopia in 1516, Thomas More created the idea of Utopia.
- 5. Examples of Utopia - Atlantis - Garden of Eden (before Eve ate the forbidden fruit, since there wasn’t any knowledge of good and evil) - Tao Yuamings “The Peach Blossom Spring” - Heaven
- 6. Do You Think Utopia is Possible?
- 7. Works Cited • "Utopia." Britsh Library. Britsh Library Board, n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. • "Utopia - Examples and Definition of Utopia." Literary Devices. Literary Devices, 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. • "Explore and Visualize the Internet with Urlfo.com." Urlfo.com. LoveToKnow, Corp, Mar. 2016. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. • “I have here the world before me; I will review it at leisure: surely happiness is somewhere to be found … Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson)
- 8. Images Cited • Bate, F. New Harmony. Digital image. Wikpidia. N.p., 5 July 2016. Web. 30 Sept. 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia#/media/File:New_Harmony_by_F._Bate_(View_of_a_C ommunity,_as_proposed_by_Robert_Owen)_printed_1838.jpg>. • @ImaginativeCons. "Utopia versus Myopia - The Imaginative Conservative."The Imaginative Conservative. N.p., 06 Dec. 2014. Web. 04 Oct. 2016. • @singularityblog. "Utopia?! Get Real!" Singularity Weblog. N.p., 06 Dec. 2012. Web. 04 Oct. 2016.