Journal Entry #2: Act 2

      While Alonso is in his depressed funk, others come in to fill the authority vacuum. Gonzalo offers his idea of a utopian society. Sebastian conspires with Antonio to murder his way to power, and Stephano exploits for power his access to wine. As far as determining the one who possesses the most common sense out of those who are sober of halfway thinking, I believe Gonzalo makes, would make the best out of all three (Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzolo) for a king. Gonzolo offers a legit theory and analogy to what his perspective is on a more realistic idea for living and ruling on an island in an utopian society.

     A utopian society is, by definition, an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. It is also considered a work of fiction describing a utopia. Others believe it to be an impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.

    Although Gonzalo has a bright idea of an utopian society, yet in his wisdom, that theory had flaws, since his explanations do offer a few irrationals and unrealistic behaviors of which to govern the people by and live substantially. Yes, it would be pleasant to live in a society where everything is free and totally liberal as such, "for no kind of traffic would I admit, no magistrate," yet people must be educated, fed, supplied wit daily substances.

    What a weird and obscure thought process Gonzolo emancipates and demonstrates in his attempt to convince his fellow mates of such an incomplete lifestyle. For without anyone to work or provide food or water for themselves and others brings about a suicide mission in ignorance. Yet, besides his inconsistencies of a successful country without work or ways to grow or provide food/things necessary for human life, Gonzolo turns back on the light bulb in his brain of knowledge and wisdom and announces a legit form of living. A country... with no crimes or violence; a society where there's all natural foods produced from the God-given vegetation and resources of the earth; to model the society of the former Golden Age.

     This society reminds me of the first perfect society destroyed or uninhabited by people; the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden was a perfect, sinless society, and the governor of the Paradise was God himself. So, Gonzolo would be the best and wisest choice for a king.