ESSAY WINNER

A perfect world is difficult to find, though I believe there is such a thing. For a world like that to exist, all of the people must be united under a single identity, so that differences between each other are as small as possible. And even then, total perfection isn’t something that can be accomplished; species evolve, and revolutionaries will form revolutions. In reference to Star Trek, the crew that explored new worlds has never been able to find a perfect world, despite the enormity of the galaxy. In such a world without flaws, villains and heroes don’t exist. Heroes fight villains, who fight society. Social perfection has no room for crime and heroics. An anti-hero would be more fitting of such a perfect world, though not necessarily required. This is because an anti-hero is of ordinary background thrust into extraordinary circumstances. It is the person who connects to the audience more because he has an everyday background. This is possible, the identity of those in a perfect world unites under, though this would mean flaws exist in that particular world. Because of this, I don’t believe that there would be villains and heroes nor anti-heroes either. I imagine that the perfect world be very monotone, coordinated like communism, and run by a sort of anarchical feeling. In our society’s eyes this doesn’t seem anywhere near perfection, but that may be because we’re not in a perfect society ourselves.