FIRST PAGE DONE!!!
First page done in my Senior English Paper :D this calls for celebration....no more work tonight. Here it is...needs some work especially in the syntax area, but I think it's a keeper. That means Mr. Brown doesn't see it until April 3rd, haha.
States of Fear
When confronted with the depiction of a society in literature, the task of determining whether it is a nightmarish regime of control and opression or a benovelent structure protecting the quality of life of its citizens is a simple one. In turn, one might expect that to condemn as evil or praise as beneficial any action or policy on behalf of the fictional governments would be just as simple. The reader might be able to classify a givern govermental attribute as utopian or dystopian during a reading, but in hindsight the analysis of utopian and dystopian attributes is much less clear. If deprived of character responses and narrative biases, distinguishing a description of a utopian society from that of a dystopian society is anything but black and white. The line between idyllic bliss and nightmarish oppression is a fine one, and both types of society display eerily similar traits. Communally shared wealth, the morality of pleasure, the virtue of uniformity, and extreme governmental regulation over daily life are all characteristics shared by many dystopian and utopian societies. The peversion of what might logically seem like an ideal social situation is a large part of what gives dystopias their horrific qualities. While utopias and dystopias share many similar, if not identical characteristics, there is a common benchmark against which the reader may gauge the intent of the government: the people. A government's purpose is to protect its people both physically and mentally by stiking a balance between freedom, which keeps them mentally satisfied, and security, which keeps them physically safe. A government that succeeds in this task, as judged by the people it governs, will be defined as utopian, while a failing government will be defined as dystopian. The presence of one emotion can serve to indicate the government's effects on its citizens. Just as fear distinguishes normal dreams from nightmares, no matter how ridiculous the threat seems upon waking, widespread fear amoung the population disinguishes benovelent aspects of societies from malevolent ones.
States of Fear
When confronted with the depiction of a society in literature, the task of determining whether it is a nightmarish regime of control and opression or a benovelent structure protecting the quality of life of its citizens is a simple one. In turn, one might expect that to condemn as evil or praise as beneficial any action or policy on behalf of the fictional governments would be just as simple. The reader might be able to classify a givern govermental attribute as utopian or dystopian during a reading, but in hindsight the analysis of utopian and dystopian attributes is much less clear. If deprived of character responses and narrative biases, distinguishing a description of a utopian society from that of a dystopian society is anything but black and white. The line between idyllic bliss and nightmarish oppression is a fine one, and both types of society display eerily similar traits. Communally shared wealth, the morality of pleasure, the virtue of uniformity, and extreme governmental regulation over daily life are all characteristics shared by many dystopian and utopian societies. The peversion of what might logically seem like an ideal social situation is a large part of what gives dystopias their horrific qualities. While utopias and dystopias share many similar, if not identical characteristics, there is a common benchmark against which the reader may gauge the intent of the government: the people. A government's purpose is to protect its people both physically and mentally by stiking a balance between freedom, which keeps them mentally satisfied, and security, which keeps them physically safe. A government that succeeds in this task, as judged by the people it governs, will be defined as utopian, while a failing government will be defined as dystopian. The presence of one emotion can serve to indicate the government's effects on its citizens. Just as fear distinguishes normal dreams from nightmares, no matter how ridiculous the threat seems upon waking, widespread fear amoung the population disinguishes benovelent aspects of societies from malevolent ones.