Utopia The Good Nonexisten Place Analysis

Utopia, the good nonexistent place. That’s what utopia means in the Greek language. Thomas More in this book describes to us what he believes and sees a perfect society would look like and how it would function and treat the individuals living on it. I agree with multiple of the features of the society, but there are also some doubts and disagreements I have with some things within the society. I am going to list two of the excellent features and two of the inappropriate features that happen in the society or within the members inside it. The first agreement I have with the island of utopia, is the brilliant idea of everyone living on the island has all the basic necessities of life (water, food, healthcare), at any time needed. This gives all the people on the island the chance to prosper and excel without …show more content…
More states that, it is not possible for justice and prosperity to exist for everyone within the society if private property exists, by doing that he is kind of creating a communistic government in which no one can control and change their own property without the government acting against them, which causes arguments and violence in today’s world. Another distasteful feature to me within the society is that money, gold, and silver have no value or meaning to anyone within the government or society. If money has no value to the people then how do they feel they live in a perfect and free society. If I were an individual in this society I would not tolerate this because, money with no value essentially means people who don’t put their part within the island, such as farming and raising children to succeed, will still have the same class and reputation as myself as one who would try to help everyone involved in the society. That effect would cause immense problems on the island within the members to