Utopian Vision in Wells’ The World Set Free

Abstract

H. G. Wells‘ The World Set Free captures human beings‘ perpetual quest for euphoric and ecstatic utopian life in different stages of history. Due to excessive development of science and technology, the historical process takes another turn towards the end of the twentieth century – people become selfish, narrow-minded and power hunters, which results in all-engulfing and all-destroying warfare throughout the world. As the war is managed successfully with the help of willingness and consensus of the world leaders and world government is formed supported by an effective council, the utopian world is regained but with more maturity, more strength and more stability. Reconstruction, renovation and restoration of infrastructures and other foundations of utopian world show that utopian world after the war is not fragile and delicate. Death and destruction dramatized in The World Set Free are undermined by the ensuing cooperation and coordination among people. Wells‘ concept of ‗war to end war‘ is justified in The World Set Free because the war mentioned in the novel is the final war needed to end enmity, doubt and hostility among human beings and to foster fraternity, friendship and fellow-feeling thereby inviting utopian blissful life.