A Study of the Utopian Communities of Brook Farm and.
The Brook Farm Community, or Brooks Farm Community, had its origin in the early 1840's against a background of an idealisation of co-operative communal living. George Ripley was a graduate of Harvard and an Unitarian minister.
Brook Farm failed because in its quest to become a self-sufficient, utopian society, a shift towards Fourierism caused financial hardships. These financial hardships were due the views of Fourierism being too different from Western-American values.
Brook Farm was mainly an outgrowth of Unitarianism Unitarianism, in general, the form of Christianity that denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person. While there were previous antitrinitarian movements in the early Christian Church, like Arianism and Monarchianism, modern Unitarianism.
In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals transformed Manor Farm into a utopia to suit all their basic needs. The animals established one central belief system that everyone could understand and follow on the farm, which they called animalism. Being on a farm, they also had all the nece.
Brook Farm is a very good example of a communal living experiment. Fruitlands was another utopian experiment that was much less successful, as it shut down only seven months after it opened. Brook Farm and Fruitlands were attempts at creating a perfect utopia with transcendental beliefs, but both were undertaken with their new societies.
Brook Farm As capitalism became a big part of life one may think of leaving it and living at Brook Farm. brook farm is a type of communal living cooperative based on Fourier. Capitalism in the mid-19th century inspired some business owners to make the workers work 19 hour days.
Download file to see previous pages Several religious and secular Utopian communities arrived in America. Some of the communities include Shakers, Rappites, Oneida community and Brook Farm. According to utopian ideas, a perfect society would have communism.