Utopia (Dover Thrift)
by Sir Thomas, Saint More | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0486295834 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0486295834 Global Overview for this book
Registered by LittleMoo of Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom on 3/4/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by LittleMoo from Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Sunday, March 4, 2007
Synopsis
Here, More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means "no place" and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as "dispenser of nonsense". This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More's society. Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance, provision for the aged, and state ownership of land, "Utopia" has been variously claimed as a Catholic tract or an argument for communism and it still invites each generation to make its own interpretation.
Here, More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means "no place" and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as "dispenser of nonsense". This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More's society. Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance, provision for the aged, and state ownership of land, "Utopia" has been variously claimed as a Catholic tract or an argument for communism and it still invites each generation to make its own interpretation.
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