http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/utopia Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:03:26 -0400 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:03:26 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/926/the-search-for-utopia-charles-dickens-hard-times-and-alfred-tennysons-mariana By Vanessa M. Braganza - Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Alfred Tennyson’s poem Mariana both invite readers to explore notions of utopia and the ideal setting for human beings. In a remarkably similar rhetorical process, both works present readers with a pair of antithetical settings alongside tragic and comic elements that highlight them as non-ideal. Both writers employ Hazlitt’s principle that “man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be” (269). By inflecting these settings... Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/926/the-search-for-utopia-charles-dickens-hard-times-and-alfred-tennysons-mariana http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland By Kelley S. Kent - James Joyce's Ulysses is first and foremost a political novel, a "real Irish nationalist epic in its most . . . politically figurative form" (Bowen vii). Joyce himself stated that Ulysses "is the epic of two races," Israel and Ireland ("To Carlo Linati" 273). An analysis of the political views of Joyce’s famous protagonist, Leopold Bloom, can therefore only elucidate his uncertain position in the novel as an Irish, Hungarian Jew. Because of his multi-faceted identity, but mostly his Jewishness, Bloom is an outsider. His Irish nationalist acquaintances (they cannot be called friends) are... Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:40 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/509/brave-new-world-and-the-threat-of-technological-growth By Derek D. Miller - The world in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has one goal: technological progress. The morals and aspirations of the society are not those of our society today - such as family, love, and success - but instead are focused around industry, economy, and technologic growth and improvement. The citizens are not concerned with themselves as individuals; they have been conditioned to see the world as a collective and technologically oriented. This society is one which Neil Postman, the author of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, would consider a ‘Technopoly.’ But... Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:21 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/509/brave-new-world-and-the-threat-of-technological-growth