Utopian Narratives are unstable and create Dystopias and heterotopias instead.

Another consideration is that many utopian narratives appear to be unstable and liable to re-inscribe themselves as dystopias, under the very weight of the privileged regulation required for their preservation. The Garden of Eden and Shakespeare’s The Tempest constitute such cases, and these shifts merely perpetuate the utopia/dystopia binary. Terry Eagleton, too, views utopian discourse as tending to disrupt its own fabric: Utopia is the most self-undermining of literary forms. If an ideal society can be portrayed only in the language of the present, it risks being betrayed as soon as we speak of it.. . . All utopian writing is also dystopian, since, like Kant’s sublime, it cannot help reminding us of our mental limits in the act of striving to go beyond them. (24) On the other hand, the willing and conscious reconsideration of utopian norms also causes a loss of utopian stasis/status, but it allows for more flexible alternatives, breaking the utopia/dystopia binary by suggesting that disrupted utopian narratives do not have dystopia as their only alternative. Among the other alternatives are the heterotopian narratives,