Bellamy’s Utopian Creation Serves its Purpose

In an overall assessment of the utopian community Bellamy creates in his novel Looking Backward, it is important to understand a few things. The nineteenth century is history. No one from today’s society knows exactly what nineteenth century life was like, as Bellamy and his society knew not what the future would hold. Bellamy’s pursuit to form a new society (the society in which Julian West awakes) in which all the problems of the nineteenth century are solved and may even be thought of as silly. As I was slowly, and need I said boringly, taken into Bellamy’s mock twentieth century, it is my personal opinion this new utopian society cleans up most of the mess that the main character, Julian West describes. Bellamy lets his audience in on a peek of the twentieth century through the eyes of a man from the nineteenth century.
It is first necessary to explain that the economic unhappiness of most of society in the nineteenth century seems to be the number one factor that need...