Brook Farm and 1800 Utopias Jake Leonard and Mitch Gerth

Background of Brook Farm ●Started in the U.S. in the 1840s ●Founded by George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley ●Based off Transcendentalism ●Used to serve as an example for the rest of the world ●Ripleys started a joint stock company ●Sold stocks at $500 a piece

Brook Farm Utopia ●Began on a dairy farm ●Different from projects started in Europe ●Used to represent a perfect living community ●Utopia is the Greek work for an imaginary place where everything is perfect ●Old utopias were made for religious purposes ●This was created for farming and working

Brook Farm Utopia ●At first the community didn’t seem anything special ●The idea was that this would give settlers more time to pursue their own literature and scientific interests ●Everyone had a job to do ●This is what helped make the community so perfect because everyone was working

Brook Farm ●After a while constant fighting broke out ●Slow decline of utopia ●Settlers became unhappy ●This utopia only lasted a couple years ●Just proves no community will ever be perfect

Brook Farm ●There can never be a perfect community ●Problems will always occur leading to fighting ●A perfect community is non existent

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