Utopia Dystopia

[sophna]

Hello people,

I have to do this essay on Utopian books and it has to be on the dystopian elements of some utopian literature. It has to be on either Aristotle's The Birds, Moore's Utopia, Gilman's Herland, Wells's Modern Utopia, or Shakespeare's The Tempest. Once again I have something to prove but I don't. Dystopian elements of utopian literature, like how the govt implements their laws, slavery in utopia, execution, etc. and how this reflects on their authors' times. Thanks for any suggestions for a title.

Soph

 

[Kookamoor]

Hello people,

I have to do this essay on Utopian books and it has to be on the dystopian elements of some utopian literature. It has to be on either Aristotle's The Birds, Moore's Utopia, Gilman's Herland, Wells's Modern Utopia, or Shakespeare's The Tempest. Once again I have something to prove but I don't. Dystopian elements of utopian literature, like how the govt implements their laws, slavery in utopia, execution, etc. and how this reflects on their authors' times. Thanks for any suggestions for a title.

Soph

Sophna is just asking for a title, not for an answer to her essay question. I'm sure she could just pick one up and start reading it, but if she can get a recommendation for which one would best suit her purposes, that would be great. I highly doubt that all these books are on her reading list, and I think that she does actually have to choose just one.

Sophna - there are a lot of requests from students for answers to their homework questions and there's not a lot of sympathy here for that sort of thing (we're readers, after all!). But as I say, I think yours is quite valid. We're not doing your homework, just offering a suggestion.

Personally, I haven't read any of the above literature, so I'm no help. But I just thought that I'd recognise that this is a valid question and appropriate for TBF. I hope that other members have some interesting suggestions for you, and that you stick around sophna .

 

[Kenny Shovel]

Hello people,

I have to do this essay on Utopian books and it has to be on the dystopian elements of some utopian literature. It has to be on either Aristotle's The Birds, Moore's Utopia, Gilman's Herland, Wells's Modern Utopia, or Shakespeare's The Tempest. Once again I have something to prove but I don't. Dystopian elements of utopian literature, like how the govt implements their laws, slavery in utopia, execution, etc. and how this reflects on their authors' times. Thanks for any suggestions for a title.

Soph

If I've got this right, you're asking for a recommendation for which of the five works on the list to pick?
If so I think you'd be lucky to find someone who's read more than one or two of that lot. So assuming that’s the case, I’d say that common sense would lead you to ‘The Tempest’; as a Shakespeare play can be read relatively quickly and there should be plenty of analysis available, both in book and InterWeb form to help you dissect the parts of it that relate to the question you’ve been asked.

Good luck with your essay.

K-S