... in legends of worldwide currency, the best known of these being the Greek, and the medieval Norse, Celtic and Arab legends that describe an earthly Paradise in the Western or Atlantic Ocean. In More's work, Utopia was an imaginary island that enjoyed the greatest perfection in its social, moral and ... description of the Golden Age. Where this idea truly fits into Ballard's fiction is that the Christian Paradise was not something that existed merely in the past; it also lay in the future. Paradise, once lost, could and would be regained. In fact, many cultures have foreseen a time of flo...

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... 1984 there exists a very peculiar scene where the main character, Winston, has a dream where he first encounters the words "the place where there is no darkness". He imagines it as a paradise, a place where nothing is hidden and the truth reins. By the end of the book Winston does in fact reach such a place, but it is not what he expected. Winston ... western culture and the concerns he has with the consequences of the decline of Christianity. He believed that, with the abolition of the system of symbols/images that we have lost the concrete link to a transcendent being and, as a result...

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... disinformation, we may find it is we ourselves who have been the manipulated dupes. Brave New World is a utopia conceived on the basis of species-self-interest masquerading as a universal paradise. Most of the inhabitants of our planet don't get a look-in, any more than they do today; religion has become outdated and not used ". You can only be independent of ... have got rid of the most profound and sublime experiences that life can offer as well. But by doing this we have lost a kind of deeper happiness or "true" happiness as John referred to as but more importantly we have lost our s...

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