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:The difference between Utopia and Dystopia Utopia: A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions. Utopia was written from the context where the Church of England was breaking away from the Catholic Church, priests were corrupt and not loyal to their lord or their morals, and people where split as to who to follow and what to believe. One of the conventions of Utopian literature is to provide a seemingly perfect solution to the problems in society, and so Thomas More created a world with complete .religious tolerance Dystopia: A dystopia is regarded as a sort of negative utopia and is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. Dystopias usually feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions. The first known use of dystopian, as recorded by the Oxford English dictionary, is a speech given before the British house of commons by John Stuart Mill in 1868, in which Mill denounced the government's Irish land policy: "It is, perhaps, too complimentary to call them Utopians, they ought rather to be called dystopians, or caco-topians. What is

commonly called Utopian is something too good to be practicable, but what they appear to favour is too bad ".to be practicable Utopian and Dystopian literature both present to their audience a style which highlights the issues of their society. Utopian pieces provide an alternative for these issues, presenting the ideal of a perfect world. Dystopian pieces show the opposite extreme, the composer taking something they disapprove of in their society and hyperbolizing it to create a world that we can recognize, but has lost all the integrity that we know. Despite being at completely opposite ends of the spectrum, Utopian and Dystopian texts share common elements, which is most often the themes that the values that they are analyzing, including the importance of religion, the consequences of modern .medicine and the importance of human relationships :Characteristics of Utopian and Dystopian society :Utopias have characteristics such as Peaceful government < Equality for citizens <

Access to education, healthcare, employment, and < so forth A safe environment < In contrast, dystopias have characteristics such as :these Usually a controlling, oppressive government or no < government Propaganda controlling people's minds < Freethinking and independent thought is banned <

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