Thomas More would advise me to not take the important government position that was being offered. In this book Utopis, Thomas More is ablibe to expresses his true feelings about the government through Raphael Hythloday a masked and a fictional character. The charactor Thomas More in the book is towards working for the government while his unlter ego is not. In this essay I will be focusing on the scenarios Hythloday offers More and Giles to prove his point that being an advisor to a king will not make a diffrance. Scenario one was Hythloday at the court of France in a top-secret session about how to take over all of Europe. Everyone had different suggestions: make deals, hire mercenaries, pay off various kings, marry off some women, make
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Poverty does not equal security. Just think about beggars. They're always getting into fights. And what better reason do people have to start a revolution than starvation? If you have nothing to lose, you'll do all kinds of reckless stuff. If a king is only king because he's horrible to his subject, he doesn't deserve to be king because he doesn't embody real authority. He's more like a jailer or an incompetent doctor than a king. Hythloday suggest that the king should only live off his own income, he should train his subjects to be obedient, not mistreat them and then punish them, he shouldn't invent or revive totally antiquated laws, and he shouldn't impose unfair fines. Instead, he should imitate the Macarians, another people who live near Utopia. The Macarians have this law saying that the treasury can only have a certain amount of gold in it at one time. That way, the king can never just spend all his time trying to gain lots of money. The amount is just enough to run the kingdom, but not enough for any outlandish silliness, so the subjects are the ones who benefit. If the treasury does go over, he has to give the extra money to his subjects, so he's really nice to them and he's feared by other kings for having such a strong
Poverty does not equal security. Just think about beggars. They're always getting into fights. And what better reason do people have to start a revolution than starvation? If you have nothing to lose, you'll do all kinds of reckless stuff. If a king is only king because he's horrible to his subject, he doesn't deserve to be king because he doesn't embody real authority. He's more like a jailer or an incompetent doctor than a king. Hythloday suggest that the king should only live off his own income, he should train his subjects to be obedient, not mistreat them and then punish them, he shouldn't invent or revive totally antiquated laws, and he shouldn't impose unfair fines. Instead, he should imitate the Macarians, another people who live near Utopia. The Macarians have this law saying that the treasury can only have a certain amount of gold in it at one time. That way, the king can never just spend all his time trying to gain lots of money. The amount is just enough to run the kingdom, but not enough for any outlandish silliness, so the subjects are the ones who benefit. If the treasury does go over, he has to give the extra money to his subjects, so he's really nice to them and he's feared by other kings for having such a strong