Utopia Ideal Society Essay

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Utopia Is Utopia an ideal society? Are the customs of the Utopians the way people in our society should follow? Many of today’s society follows the opposite of what the Utopians culture follows, from jobs, money, and being conservative. The Island of Utopia had a way of life different from what anyone had seen before, that was thought to have been an “Ideal” society. In today’s society everyone has different jobs, some help the world go around, while others slow it down. Although most of these jobs hurt people and the environment, we still make the products due to the demand for it. In Utopia everyone works in Agriculture, producing just what they need. Everyone does there part in an equal way, doing what they were told to do. Even though, …show more content…

People are treated by how much money they have or the amount of things they have, as they are put into a social class based on it. Although, in Utopia, people are treated equally, “[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep” (Thomas More). Money is the main thing people use today for everything, without money in this society you are in major trouble. In Utopia, money is nothing to them, they could careless, as said in the story, “Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?”(Thomas More). With that being said, money doesn’t matter, they build or grow the things they need to survive, and aren’t worried about how much many they have or can …show more content…

These leftover items often never get used and end up being thrown away, wasted. If something is given out free or at a discounted price, people today will take as many as they can carry or afford. With that being said, people take so many that the ones that actually could use it, never get one. Although this is how people today has been taught to do things, having too much is better than not enough, causes more problems in the future. In Utopia, premarital sex is highly discouraged and can get you in great trouble, forbidding you from ever being married. Although people today have such things as casual sex, with people that they had just met or only call when the need arises. With all the premarital sex that takes place today, you see more and more single parents, who some of the children have never seen their father or mother. One would see more families sticking and staying together, instead of the thing people take for granite in this day and time,

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