Examples Of Human Nature In A Utopian Society

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Human Nature in a Utopian Society Questions if a utopian society would exist in the real world have been debated throughout history. Throughout the years, scholars have found that a true utopian society was a culture free of unhappiness, hunger and conflict (Utopia: A General Introduction). However, a utopian society would not exist because of human nature. As long as humans remained unique and true to themselves, utopia will continue to be fragments of pure fiction. Human nature will always bring people to unhappiness, hunger, and conflict at some point of their lives. Perfection and harmony was one of the most important features of a utopian society. In order for a culture to become perfect in any way, the people in that culture also …show more content…
If all the citizens show no ownership over things or even people then everyone would have the same and fair chance to use different essential or luxurious items. In Brave New World, there was a saying in the society that stated “ every one belongs to every one else”(Huxley, 1932, p. 4). This meant that one person would not claim another person as his or her own. The terms boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife was nonexistent because the thought of binding someone into a relationship was selfish. Regardless of how the society may view this, human nature would always bring people to feel envy because someone else was using something they wished they had all to themselves. This was made apparent when Bernard Marx from Brave New World was beginning to feel disgusted and envy when he overheard a discussion between two of his peers (Huxley, 1932, p. 12). Henry Foster told the Assistant Predestinator how great Lenina Crowne was and how the Assistant should have sexual interactions with her. This made Marx jealous and mad because he did not appreciate them talking about Crowne as “a piece of meat” (Huxley, 1932, p. 14). Additionally, he had romantic feelings for Crowne, so he did not want anyone to take her sexually but himself. This goes to show that it did not matter that the society tired to remove ownership from the people, human nature would …show more content…
Some would argue that as a result of controlling the people, that society was a utopian. In order for a community to lack conflict, all the citizens needed to have the same mindset. However, each and every person would not have the same views on certain subjects. In 1984, the leaders limited the chance of different ideologies by restricting the information of the past. Despite this, Winston Smith was beginning to view the world around him a little different from the leaders. Smith had a notebook that he would express his ideas in and some of his opinions were conflicting with the leaders’ ideologies. This shows that no matter what methods the leaders exerted over everyone to have the same mindset, someone would have an opposite opinion or