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Literature reinforces this tragic truth. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies , a pristine coral island becomes a stage for savagery precisely because the boys try to impose perfect, rational rules. Jack rebels not due to hunger or threat, but because the perfection of order is boring; chaos is dynamic. Similarly, in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (a title that evokes a “new” perfection), the World State is an island of global scale—isolated, engineered, and stable. Yet the “savage” John reminds us that a society which eliminates suffering also eliminates art, love, and meaning. The perfect island, stripped of struggle, becomes a prison. Shakespeare’s Prospero, on his island, perfects his magical control, yet the final act of his “new” society is to drown his books and return to Milan’s imperfect humanity. The island’s perfection was only ever a temporary, lonely illusion.