Dystopia means a society charecterized by human misery such as squalor, oppression, disease and overcrowding. Utopia is the complete oppisite meaning an imaginary place of perfection or an ideal place of state. Out of both of these Jonas seems to live in a Utopia. Obviously Jonas doesn't live in a dystopia because even Jonas claims that the citizens have never experienced the hardships of life, implying that their lives are orderly and seemingly perfect which relates to a utopian society.
Jonas's world could be either, only for him because of the memories that the Giver and the realistic society in general. The reason why the society is an utopia is because of the commitee that runs the community. The commitee keeps the town perfect,so perfect that people never have to worry about major the problems that people like we have to face such as divorce and crime reason for this is the fact that the community doesnt make chooices for themselves, the choices are made for them such as marriage. Kids never have to face divorce again because the community creates compatible matches between women and men so that they are the only ones compatible with each other. Crime is never faced in the community because people never seem to be rebellious towards the community they all seem to be content with the fact that their live are run for them. Even in one part of the book Jonas admits that the community is so orderly. Everythiing about the community is made to perfection, everything seems to be fine. The community even criticizes the hyperbole use of the word starving because the commitee says that the people will never starve in the community, as Jonas was told. This shows how the community knows that it's perfect because everywhere inour present world has faced starvation once, and to not face it shows how much it's the ideal place to live.
The community in which jonas lives in can also be a dystopia because it is very oppresive of feelings. The society doesn't let the use of hyperboles in order to describe something,meaning that people ,can't express their feeling in a enthusiastic way like we do. It is also oppresive to the feelings that Jonas has because in the story when jonas asks his parent do they love him they said it's a meaningless word that has not been used. Which shows how the community has omitted words that express feelings of any sort. Jonas is also opressed because he can't explain anything the Giver has taught him because the commitee limits the community to feelings in the first place and to experience new things thats why Jonas is being oppressed because he can't express his feelings towards anyone in the community. Jonas' world can also be seen as a dystopia for the fact that he has misery from the memories transfered to him from the Giver therfore making his world full of misery.
To make our world a utopia there would have to be rules that are very strict, therules would also have to take away the freedom of the civilians, because freedom makes people do waht they want. Once you give someone the freedom to do anything they start to take advantage of it. It not only takes the government, but the commitment of the civilians. The civillians need to be able to obey the laws for the plans of creating a utopia to work. if people don't obey then you're not going to get anywhere in creating a utopia. In ordder to becomea utopiapeople would also follow morals andhave trust in everybody because if everyone had trust in each other the world would be easier to be a utopia because the trust would make them believe that we are doing a right thing by creating it.
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