Shaniel Done
ENGL 101 – 0768
Dr. Vasileiou
Essay # 1
10/01/12
What is a real Utopia?
Every improvement
made in the history of the human race take us one step closer to what we call a
Utopia, a place where everything is perfect, I mean nothing and again nothing
goes wrong, where diseases are a myth and everyone is equal. In this essay I will
demonstrate how the world presented in the movie Gattaca is not a Utopia but a
Dystopia by providing evidence and details that support my point of view from
the movie Gattaca, the views Annas offers in his essay, and examples from human
history as well as the present.
In the movie Gattaca from the beginning to the end of the
movie one topic is always present and that topic is discrimination, is more
than clear that the new ideal human, the genetically engineered human are in
the top of the pyramid and the “normal” human are beneath. When a society or
community separate two groups and call them different, that’s when one of the groups
will feel discriminated by the other and the time will lead to confrontations, fights,
and unhappiness, finally both groups will see the other as the enemy. In this movie being normal is not a fortune,
being normal means that you are not going to be eligible for many type of work,
you will be limited. Now is this a
Utopia? –no—this is not something that I will call perfect, African American versus
the white man, Dominican versus Haitian, poor people versus the rich… this
fights goes on and on it doesn’t stop, this is something that is keeping us
away from a Utopia dream.
Is my position clear and how can I make it better so
anyone can understand my point of view?
You have made your point really clear, in that you gave text-to-text and text-to-world examples. A possible option to make your view even more clear is to talk about how the negatives outweigh the positives a bit more. Such as, why is the science we have now better than the science in Gattaca that allows us for genetic engineering.
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