Examples Of Utopia In The House Of The Scorpion

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Normally when we think of the word “utopia”, we think of a place that is ideal to live in where everything is perfect. However, I think that utopias are bad because when people gain power, they can get greedy and create a utopia that is not great for the people they lead. A few examples of this are the country of Opium in “The House of the Scorpion”, “Animal Farm”, and the United States in
“Harrison Bergeron”. These are great examples of leaders taking advantage of the power they have over their people. “The House of the Scorpion” is set in a country named Opium where the powerful leader, El
Patrón, has all of the power and everyone obeys him. El Patrón creates his ideal country for just his family where the house models his childhood home …show more content…

One example of the power that
El Patrón has is that he has a clone named Matt that everyone hates, but because El Patrón is so powerful, everybody has to be nice to Matt. Another example would be that El Patrón controls who all of the children marry so that he can gain even more money and power. To conclude, nobody likes El
Patrón’s utopia but him. Which is why I think utopias are bad, most of the time, they only work for the person in charge. In “Animal Farm”, the animals on one particular farm overthrow the humans and create an all animal farm. In the beginning, the animals want to rid the farm of human influence and have all animals be equal. As the story progresses, the pigs, who assume the roles of leaders, end up becoming more and more powerful. One day, the only sensible pig, Snowball, is expelled and a greedy pig, Napolean, takes over. The trust the other animals have in the pigs blinds them to the fact that the pigs are slowly gaining power and creating a utopia that suits them. While the pigs enjoy things that humans would use, take more food, and even slaughter innocent animals, the other animals are told that the pigs need these things to run the farm and that the slaughtering

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