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  • Essay / Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - 698

    Looking BackwardThe book Looking Backward was written by Edward Bellamy and published in 1888. Bellamy began his career as a journalist but later married and decided to devote his efforts to writing fiction novels. . Looking Backward was published and Bellamy was famous. The book toured the country and got people to imagine a world like the one Bellamy created in his book. The idea of ​​a utopia like the one he describes is incredible. His book is what people, even today in the 21st century, wish the world could look like. However, Bellamy's world of reasoning and judging people based on their inner beliefs is not what people then and now do. Bellamy's book showed a world of rationality applied to create a world of truly good and generous people. If rationality were used to create a healthy, warlike society, the image Bellamy envisioned would be true today. Bellamy built his utopia on the position that individuals were not in competition with each other. The story begins with a preface that explains the sum of the story. The story introduces the fact that Bellamy writes as if we are already in the 20th century and the world is viewed through rationality. Bellamy uses the character of Julian West to represent industrialization and how his utopia is used as answers to the problems of industrialization, and Dr. Leete to represent...