In More's work, Utopia was an imaginary island that enjoyed the greatest perfection in its social, moral and political aspects. ... Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974) contrasts an egalitarian utopia with an anti-utopia that closely mimics that of present day Western society, but where we can truly see as a text radically influenced by the sixties is the fact it is not just a feminist utopia; it is even more so an ecotopia (i.e. an ecological utopia). In fact, most feminist utopias adhere to this format. ... The rediscovery and reassessment of William Morris" News From Nowhere (1890), ...

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His name was Friday. ... On the island, Crusoe is free from any influences. ... Maximillian reveals that throughout Crusoe's narrative, he is aware of a terrible original sin against his father and God. ... This let him survive on this island. ... Novak also reflects on Crusoe as the hero of numerous economic utopias. ...

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Lilliput's potent enemy abroad is the island of "Blefuscu" which represents England's enemy France. ... The main political parties of the time, the Tories and the Whigs, competed with each other bitterly this is represented in Gulliver's Travels as Lilliput's rowing political parties "for above seventy moons past there have two struggling parties in this Empire under the names of Tramecksan and Slamecksan" (1.4). ... It has been stated that Swift's Yahoo is "a criticism of modern man as a degenerate who has been backsliding for generations from his original nobility ...

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To completely understand the true meaning of an epic hero, one has to be familiar with the original epic hero a man of legendary proportions, a man by the name of Odysseus. ... After the fall of Troy, Odysseus and his men are lost at sea, and begin a tale of wandering from islands to strange foreign lands, overcoming strange sorcery and antagonists. ... When Odysseus was held hostage by Calypso, who offered him gifts of immortality and a life of utopia for his hand in marriage, he refused, never losing sight of his ultimate goalIthaca. ...

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However, over the years, early Puritans' wish to establish a Christian utopia in a pristine New World morphed into Crèvecoeur's more self-centered view of a new country built on "fair laws" and commercial success. During the 1500s, people who attempted to purify the Church of England from "within" were given the name of Puritans. ... Rhode Island even declared complete toleration of all religions on its charter of 1663. ... Another benefit in coming to America was that no matter what the immigrant's original nationality, this new country allowed them...

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Pythagoras was born off the coast of Turkey on the Island of Samos in the 6th century BC. ... Why was it that in the utopia like Garden of Eden every creature was an herbivore, but after the flood man is blessed with ruling and eating all animals? ... It is as if God realized man was not capable of existing in a world of herbivores, and God corrected his original intent (1). ... This period is known historically as the Vedic period, named after a series of sacred Hindu texts known as the Vedas. ...

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In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. ... It was accepted as long as the swears were deleted and several names were changed to prevent lawsuits. ... In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984. The islands climate was unsuitable for someone suffering from tuberculosis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflects the bleakness of human suffering, the indignity of pain. ...

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