Utopia becoming a Dystopia

Sorry for my two posts to be out of order, I needed to get them posted.

During Voltaires Candide, Eldorado and the idea of a utopia is brought into the novel.  This idea of a perfect society is nothing new to the literary world.  The idea is brought up in several different novels, always with a different twist to make it unique.  The first novel that came to my mind of a utopian society was The Giver by Lois Lowry.  In The Giver, all the bad of society such as pain, war and death are removed.  No longer is the idea of failure or hunger, simple things all humans feel, apart of this society.  It is impossible for these things to exist because simply the possibility of them has been removed.  Children are born by birthmothers and are given to families that are put together after society decides that are compatible.  Children that aren’t perfect, and don’t get a family and old people, are then “released” which is like death, but never said it is death, because the society is too perfect for this to happen.  Jonas, receives the job of the receiver, where all the memories that have been wrong and caused imperfection are put on him, only he can feel and remember, so those mistakes are never made again.  Jonas realizes, this world without feeling, isn’t worth the misery of not knowing the joys that the painful real world can bring. Is this Utopian society even possible?  Its realized that its a dystopian society eventually, that all the perfect in the world will eventually bring imperfection.  In Candide, while in Eldorado and getting ready to leave, the King tells them that he will have his people build them something to travel in on their journey.  “When you have been conveyed to the other side of the mountains, no one may accompany you further; for my subjects have vowed never to set foot beyond our borders, and they are too wise to break the oath.”  Is a society that is perfect and without harm or distaste, not a free society?  Can this Utopian society be achieved without taking away some of the most important attributes to people?  It sounds through the words of the King that fear is evoked in the people in order for them not to leave.  I think most literature has shown that Utopia is not possible, without losing what is most important and needed in a society.  I included a link to The Giver on Wikipedia just for a full description of the book, the one given is a good one.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver