Questions
- What is the history (context) of each utopian vision? What will be the history of your own utopia? How and why they began?
- What are the values being proposed?
- Who are the gods and/or heroes?
- What are the attitudes about employment, goals and behavior?
- Describe and explain the architecture and any changes that evolve.
- What are the morals? What are the ideas about sex? What is deemed right or wrong? Why? What is/isn't acceptable?
- Who is/isn't important in society?
- What kinds of names are chosen for the people and places of this utopia and why?
- What utopian principles are found in each work? Do you want/need them all in yours?
- Are people hiding from reality, unable to cope with real issues and real people? Are people actually capable of living "perfectly" in a "perfect" society? Would you want to live there?
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