A number of books throughout Western literary history have discussed what it means to create an ideal society, often more cynically than More. Works like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World show a more authoritative side of utopianism and are often referred to as dystopian literature as a result. Less directly literary works of philosophy, such as Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's The Prince, discuss what it means to forge a healthy, functional society and how to rule over people.
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