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Analysis of Looking Backward 20001887
Title: Analysis of Looking Backward 20001887
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 877 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Analysis of Looking Backward 20001887
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887 was an attempt to show Americans who desired the utopian sense of community what it could truly be. Looking Backward addressed the yearnings of a society stricken by economic panics and social collapse by proposing an Eden-like community in which war, hunger, greed and malice were eradicated from society. While the story followed the wonderment of Julian West as he awoke in a Boston of 2000 AD after 113 years of sleep, the …showed first 75 words of 877 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 877 total…the book is just putting on paper a way to improve society in every way. Through the control of all economy by the government, all of society’s evils have been eradicated. As for the predictions it makes, this is a novel of utopian society. As far as inventions go, the only things accurate were electric lighting, shopping malls and radio. Everything else in this book is just wishful thinking on the part of Bellamy.
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