Analysis Of Thomas More's Three Early Modern Utopias

Thomas More is the author of the book Three Early Modern Utopias, he traveled to Antwerp where he met both his friend Peter Giles who helped More to publish the book about Utopia and Raphael Hythlody who is a philosopher and also a world traveler, he lived for almost five years at Utopia. “More” the character of the book is fictional, as well as Utopia and Raphael Hythlody. Hythlody means “talker of nonsense”. After Giles introduced More to Hythlody, Hythlody starts telling them about his adventures during the travel. Hythlody was having a dinner with a group of English people and he pointed out how evil the government in England is and the laws and how the king of England want his people to agree with his decisions even if they do not like …show more content…
While it means at the same time no place. Factors for the nonexistence of Utopia is the names and place which are used such as the ruler “Ademus” who means a man without people, the river “Andyer” means no water, “Utopia” means no place, and “Amaurot” means phantom. More did not argue that Utopia is actually a location in the new world because he knows that it does not even exists. More tries to write a book about Utopia because of Gilesnealy’s request. He took long time in order to write the manuscript that describes Utopia so he had to apologize to Gilesnealy for the lateness. More informed him that the reason he did not start yet was of the long periods he spends at work and the time he spends with his family so he does not have any free time for himself to write it. The main reason for him not starting is that he does not know what to write or from where to start because everything he wrote is depended on the information which was given to him by Hythlody, that is one of the reasons he was unsure about the information which he is providing the readers with. The signs which show that More has never traveled to Utopia were he was not able to recognize which part of the new world Utopia is located and He was not sure about the bridge that crosses the Utopian river of Anyder and he was disagreeing about the length of the river. More was focusing more on giving unnecessary details than actually go more in depth on the actual details. Characteristics of the Utopian society are the subjects about morality and truth had an important shape in Utopian society. Labors and goods were divide equally between Utopians. The work hours were equal between all of them. Utopians disliked the idea of pride because they thought of it as the case of injuries and crimes. In Utopia, Poverty did not exist and everyone works. There is no privacy in Utopia and no time to spend on themselves. Even though Utopia did not