Madame Bovary
The town of New Harmony, Indiana, perhaps offers one of the most colorful histories of Utopianism in all of America. Led by Robert Owen, it is here that a group of men and women put into practice several major social concepts that flourished among American visionaries of the nineteenth century through the formation of an unique utopia called New Harmony. One such important characteristic of nineteenth century reform was the belief that there should be institutional solutions to the growing social problems and decline of urban society. This idea was practiced by the followers of Owen, people otherwise known as Owenites, who were workers on his colony, New Harmony. Owen argued that the only way that the standard of working could change was in an institution, or utopia, with “co-operative” effort and common ownership. “I am come to this country,” Owen announced, “to introduce an entire new state of society, to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one, and remove all causes for contests between individuals.” Furthermore, he also insisted that common man is not responsible for his acts and can only be saved from ignorance and poverty only by th
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Approximate Word count = 1483
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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