An ideal society is like a beautiful dream, one that everyone has but is accomplished due to human selfish nature. In Shakespeare’s "The Tempest," Gonzalo tells the others about his ideas for a paradise kingdom there on the island. However, this dream shows its flaws by the other characters action throughout the play. Montaigne meets a native (what is now Brazil) and from his encounter he wrote “Of Cannibals”. Montaigne implies that these unknown natives are not as barbaric as they seem but instead live in harmony with nature by having a perfect religious life and governmental/economical system. Instead, it is the European who has bastardized nature and her works, while the so-called savage lives in a state of purity. Although Gonzalo's ideas and intentions are well meant, with modern man, it could not work. Gonzalo, an old friend and loyal lord, comments on the beauty of the island that they have been the shipwrecked on. He voices his views describing a world where he and his subjects life in Paradise or similar to a biblical “Garden of Edna” (The Tempest Act V, Scene I). Also indicating that his paradise will be fill with many “contraries”. A lack of possessions, wealth and weaponry keeps a paradise from becoming a state of nature in which men are greedy and self-interested. Among the things that wouldn't be included in his utopian paradise would be, “riches, poverty,/And use of service, none” (The Tempest 136-137). This society views people as equals and that no man controls another. However, Sebastian and Antonio point out how unappreciated his “radical” thoughts are mocking Gonzalo and showing how difficult a utopian idea is hard to campaign. Perhaps in a more primitive area such a utopian system would work, such as a tribal society that Montaigne describes, "an innocence as pure and simple as we have actually seen; nor could they believe that our society might be maintained with so little artificiality and human organization". (Montaigne pg110). The idealized Utopia Gonzalo suggests a land where everyone is equal and happy. Most of humans are only looking for more gain or power. Throughout the Tempest, the hierarchy considers this to be their island. The idea of the island being inhabited didn't even cross their minds. They are more focused on who is entitled to this land then they are of escaping back to Milan. Also, instead of connected as a group they fall apart, Antonio and Sebastian even plot the