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    Novel Satire

    Utopia
    Author Year Published Original Language
    Thomas More 1516 Latin

    MAIN IDEAS

    Exploring the More invented the word utopia from the Greek words for “no place” and
    “good place” to describe a perfect society where all property is shared,
    Perfect Society government is rational, and everyone is happy. The story is told by Raphael
    Hythloday, a fictional traveler to the New World who discovered the island
    of Utopia by accident.

    Property & Wealth

    Sharing property and doing


    away with money make theft
    and hoarding unnecessary.

    Perfect Place

    The word utopia came to


    mean a “perfect place”
    where everyone is happy
    and provided for.

    Crime & Punishment

    Rejecting the use of


    execution for most crimes as
    ineffective, More proposed
    alternative punishments—
    enslavement and banishment.

    Main Characters

    DEBATES FRIENDS

    Raphael Hythloday Thomas More Peter Giles

    Fictional Portuguese Fictional version of the Fictional version of More’s


    academic and sailor; author; debates Hythloday friend; hosts More and
    discovers Utopia Hythloday

    Influence

    Literary Utopias & Political Impact


    Dystopias of Utopia
    Later authors built on the ideas laid The idea of utopia has influenced the
    out in Utopia to write utopian and development of such political philosophies
    dystopian books such as 1984, as communism and the cooperative and
    Brave New World, and Walden Two. commune movements.

    Symbols

    Island Gold

    Represents Utopia’s Unvalued and used for everyday


    uniqueness and isolation from things in Utopia; symbolizes the
    the rest of the world, as well futility of greed in a society where
    as it being a paradise everyone’s needs are met

    Author
    Utopia
    by the Numbers

    ~15 7/6
    Months More spent in the Date More was executed
    Tower of London after being after being found guilty
    accused of treason against of treason
    THOMAS MORE
    King Henry VIII
    1478–1535

    An English writer,
    philosopher, and politician,
    More lived during the reign
    of King Henry VIII, whom he
    served as a councilor. A
    dedicated Catholic, More
    refused to support the king's
    1935 1848 decision to divorce his first
    wife and was accused of
    Year the Catholic Church Year Oneida—one of the treason, a crime for which
    made More a saint most notorious American he was beheaded.
    utopian communities—was
    founded based on the
    concept of group marriage

    t is the fear of want that makes ... animals


    either greedy or ravenous.
    Raphael Hythloday, Book 2, Chapter 6

    Sources: BBC, British Library, The Center for Thomas More Studies,
    Encyclopaedia Britannica

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