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This article analyzes Paradise as an articulation of utopias, that is, as a set of naive dreams cherished by the Ruby community. While their relocation is a consequence of the project to build a stable, egalitarian, and integrated society, perceived as a refuge from various forms of oppression, inequality, and injustice, Ruby ultimately becomes a hell for most of its inhabitants. Drawing primarily on Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction, and secondarily on Marxism and feminism, this study investigates the contradictions between utopia and dystopia, purity and impurity, equality and hierarchy. Ultimately, it emerges that the presence of a phallocentric and plutocratic society, implying the marginalization of women and young people on the one hand, and the practice of internal racism on the other, undermines the dream of an egalitarian society. Similarly, its capitalist and individualistic management style makes Ruby a community diametrically opposed to the initially cherished collectivist dream. In short, with Ruby's hellish existence and the killings and destruction that occurred at the Convent, the dream of the men of Paradise becomes a dystopia. Keywords : utopia, collectivism, equality, patriarchy, capitalism, racism, exclusion, dystopia