ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Adam and Eve living in the Garden during Genesis 1-2 is an example of a utopian lifestyle. When they first sin by eating the forbidden fruit during Genesis 3, the World becomes a dystopia. They tried to live a perfect life, but the corruption of mankind eventually transformed the world into a dystopia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The story of the Garden of Eden is a theological use of mythological themes to explain human progression from a state of innocence and bliss to the present human condition of knowledge of sin, misery, and death.

Detailed explanation-3: -The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. Various suggestions have been made for its location: at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in Armenia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Garden of Eden, an aesthetically pleasing place in which there was “no knowledge of good and evil" Heaven, a religious supernatural place where God, angels and human souls live in harmony. Shangri-La, in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon, a mystical harmonious valley. More items

Detailed explanation-5: -a. Moral. All these utopias use and explore questionable morals or ethics, such as the genetic perfection of human beings. b. Political/Economic/Social. c. Ecological. d. Religious. Dystopia. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia.