Utopia And Ecotopi A Comparative Analysis

There is a huge difference among these authors and their ideal society when it comes to sex and adultery. Marriage within More’s ideal society is extremely strict and divorce is occasionally not even an option. Women are allowed to marry at the age of 18, while men are allowed to marry at the age of 22. If any individual is caught having sexual relations before being married they are punished and denied the privilege to get married in the future. Within More’s work Utopia, the slaves were usually those who were taken captive from battle or those who were part of their immediate society but committed a crime. Either way, these slaves were going to live a life full of labor and were forced to perform all the dirty and unsanitary tasks that the free citizens weren’t allowed to perform. Ironically, those slaves captured from battle were treated more fairly than those who were originally part of the main society. The main reason for those who were part of the society becoming a slave was due to the crime that they committed. This crime was adultery. “They punish adulterers with the strictest form of slavery (More & Logan, 2011, p.73).” In More’s perfect society when a citizen …show more content…
Whether these two authors agree or not has to do with their own personal values and beliefs as well as the time period their works were written. It is clear that when More wrote Utopia in 1561, the issues concerning health, population control, sex/adultery and many other issues were very different in that time. Callenbach wrote his work Ecotopia in 1975, this was an extremely different time and ultimately may have caused the difference between the two authors when it came to certain aspects of their ideal society. Nonetheless, More and Callenbach were exceptional authors and definitely have positively influenced their readings and perhaps even helped cultivate their ideas of a utopian