Utopia

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Utopia

• Dystopia

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Definitions

• Utopia is a term for an ideal society. It has
  been used to describe both planned communities
  that attempt to create an ideal society, and
  fictional societies portrayed in literature.
  (The Garden of Eden)
• Dystopia is the vision of a society that is the
  opposite of ideal. A dystopian society is a state
  in which the conditions of life are extremely
  bad, characterized by human misery, poverty,
  oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution

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Utopias

• Utopian society is founded on perfectionism and
  fulfillment.

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Fantasy Utopia
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Futuristic Utopia
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Garden Utopia
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Dystopias

• Most dystopias impose severe social restrictions
  on the characters' lives.
• It is a culture where the condition of life is
  "extremely bad," as from deprivation, oppression,
  or terror.
• Many dystopias, found in fictional and artistic
  works, can be described as a utopian society with
  at least one fatal flaw whereas a utopian
  society is founded on perfectionism and
  fulfillment, a dystopian societys dreams of
  improvement are overshadowed by stimulating fears
  of the ugly consequences of present-day
  behavior.

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A Dystopia in which air is unsafe to breath.
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A dystopia in which radiation causes mutations in
human DNA
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Utter destruction Dystopia
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Under water Dystopia
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Over populated Dystopia
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Filthy City Dystopia
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Dystopia in BNW

• The first characteristic of BNW is universal
  contentment and happiness.
• All classes of the BNW are part of a strict
  system of Caste each are happy because they have
  been shaped, before non-birth and after
  non-birth, to be entirely satisfied with their
  allotted part in life, and to consider themselves
  entirely happy.

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Dystopia in BNW

• A world divided into a certain number of classes,
  in each of which the individuals have been so
  conditioned that they can only be happy in the
  state to which society has destined them.
  Physically and mentally they are formed for their
  particular lot in life.
• Im glad Im not a Epsilon said Lenina with
  conviction.
• And if you were an Epsilon your conditioning
  would have made you no less thankful that you
  werent a Beta or and Alpha
• That is the secret of happiness and virtue
  liking what youve got to do. All conditioning
  aims at that making people like their
  inescapable social destiny

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Pros and Cons of BNW Dystopia

• Both men and women are equals in society.
• However, a third pseudo-gender has been
  engineered. Freemartins (hermaphroditic) a group
  of humans who appear to have been grown as
  females, but are sterile and exhibit traits of
  both the male and female genders. While
  freemartins appear female, they exhibit some male
  characteristics, including the growth of facial
  hair. Freemartin is a woman who has been
  deliberately made sterile by exposure to hormones
  during fetal development. 70 of females in BNW
  are freemartins. Citizens of the World State
  enjoy racial harmony across the planet
• People do not age they remain young and athletic
  until the day they die.
• Only frequent blood transfusions, and hormone
  replacement therapy will prevent the aging
  process. However, people only live to be about
  65 years of age.

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Pros and Cons of BNW Dystopia

• Everyone always has a job there is NO
  unemployment!
• In order to enhance consumerism and so keep the
  economy strong, people are encouraged to throw
  away old or damaged possessions and buy new ones.
  In this way, every citizen of the World State is
  kept happy, with a plentiful supply of creature
  comforts and a permanent job.
• With Soma no one is ever depressed.
• People may not have to feel sad or depressed, but
  the problem lies with passion. Without intense
  feelings there is no passion.

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This Dystopia must give up love, family, science,
art, religion, and historymost importantly
Individuality!