Where Thule, located on an island, is presented as an ideal society, where the people live in harmony with each other and nature, is het Badense Rijk presented as a conflict driven empire where the biggest part of the population lives in poverty. It tells the story about two imaginary nations, Thule and het Badense Rijk, that are in constant conflict with each other. At the end of the nineteen eighties the female Dutch writer Thea Beckman writes children’s novel about a future world, consisting of three parts, named Kinderen van Moeder Aarde. Sometimes utopia takes the form of a dystopia: a society with merely negative elements. The word utopia first appeared in the eponymous book of Thomas More in 1516 where it got its definition: a social planning, a design for a future ideal world or social order radically different from the criticised present world, casted in a literary form.
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