While a first and superficial glance may draw a conclusion that identifies More and Swift to be …show more content…
In Utopia, More decides to have Utopia apologized and advocated for by one Raphael Hythloday. Raphael, being the archangel most associated with healing (as in the book of Tobias), is an appropriate name for a man that More and Giles believe would be well suited to solve the world’s—or at least, a nation’s—problems as a statesman or a chancellor in the service of a king (p. 15). But Hythloday translates to “nonsense peddler” (Rudat, p. 41). With this understanding alone, our suspicions must be cast on Hythloday and we must wonder whether or not the author, Sir Thomas More, really intends to express his own ideas through a fictional figure of his own inventing, and who he has named to represent malpractice and