Read the following group discussion about utopias (perfect societies) and dystopias (hellish societies).
VICTOR:
If you all read Sanchez's article, you know that she argues
that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a utopian novel,
not a dystopian novel. It's a negative society for the main
character only because he's a weirdo, an outsider.
Everybody else is happy.
RIKU:
Yeah, but keep in mind how Sanchez defines a utopia. Her
idea of a perfect society is one where everybody is ranked
by ability and there isn't any conflict not even
disagreements.
EDGAR:
What's your point?
RIKU:
My point is that Sanchez's idea of a perfect society is all
about rules and order. I know that my idea of a utopia is
totally different from that, and it's probably different from a
lot of other people's, including Huxley's.
MARIA:
In that case, what are some other examples of utopias?
Ones that aren't orderly like the society in Brave New
World?
EDGAR
Why don't we each find a different example of a utopian
society in literature and see how they're different?
VICTOR
O. K. I pick Thomas More's Utopia. I haven't read it yet, so
we'll see what he thinks.
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