ENGL 105W Lecture Notes - Utopia, Alexis De Tocqueville
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Ending is a profound, de-spiriting conclusion - suicide is the only option for the savage. Nervous about a collective mind idea that equality = happiness. Fears with the advent of technology, loses perfection of human consciousness. Females taken advantage of in the land of cockaigne. Everything so far haven"t addressed the issue of gender equality, gender utopia. Man"s perspective of what a gender utopia would look like. Bishop hall anglican clergyman, fan of satire. Takes abnormal traits, amplifies them and makes fun of them playful ironic but also has. Idea of something being not natural not normal serious points. Viraginia, or new gynia located in the south pole, antarctica literally a world upside down, everything is inverted. Suggesting a world ruled by women is a world ruled by drunks, thieves, God mercury is a messenger to the gods, known to be a archetypal deceiver, a liar.