Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Punishment in Utopia

With the use of “halos” as the ultimate ‘demise’ for a citizen in Minority Report, I was wondering what parallel ways we can think of how a citizen of a utopia is ‘taken care of’ in our other readings. In Herlandthe citizens are not given the right to have children, and the men are educated and held captive. In Caves of Steelthere is the threat of declassification. In Unwindthere is a chance that our characters will be ‘unwound’ (more on that next class). Is ‘haloing’ a depraved form of punishment or a light one? Do the forms of punishment in a utopia show that it is truly enlightened?

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