Analysis of Alanis Morsette's Utopia
We'd all slow down rest without guilt not lie without fear disagree sans judgement
We would stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and
enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and
open and reach out and speak up
This is utopia this is my utopia
This is my ideal my end in sight
Utopia this is my utopia
This is my nirvana
My ultimate
We'd open our arms we'd all jump in we'd all coast down into safety nets
We would share and listen and support and welcome be propelled by passion not
invest in outcomes we would breathe and be charmed and amused by difference
be gentle and make room for every emotion
We'd provide forums we'd all speak out we'd all be heard we'd all feel seen
We'd rise post-obstacle more defined more grateful we would heal be humbled
and be unstoppable we'd hold close and let go and know when to do which we'd
release and disarm and stand up and feel safe
This is utopia this is my utopia
This is my ideal my end in sight
Utopia this is my utopia
This is my nirvana
My ultimate
This song can be an example of utopia because it tells about an individual’s vision of their ideal community or society, one with a perfectly balanced social and political legal system. Jacob Bronowski, a British scientist alive at the time that Orwell wrote and published 1984, once said “... Utopianism can be taken to be too sharply opposed” and described it as “idealistic and dreamlike” (Quote of Jacob Bronowski).
When the song’s lyrics say “We would share and listen and support and welcome be propelled by passion not invest in outcomes we would breathe and be charmed and amused by difference be gentle and make room for every emotion,” that shows that they are free to say and feel what they want; this is unlike the Orwell’s novel, 1984, because that society is controlled. People are brainwashed under the Big Brother. They have no control over their lives because they are constantly under surveillance.
This song does not have any rhythm in particular, though it does use similar sounding words. Also, the lines are written and broken up to always be the same length in each stanza.
