Thomas More, the author of Utopia, travels to Antwerp, where he meets both his friends Peter Giles, who helps him publish the book about Utopia, and Raphael Hythloday who is a philosopher and a world traveler; he lives approximately five years at Utopia. “More” the character of the book is fictional, as well as Utopia and Raphael Hythloday. Hythloday means “speaker of nonsense”. After Giles introduces More to Hythloday, Hythloday starts telling them about his adventures during his travel. Hythloday is having a dinner with a group of English people and he points out how evil the government in England, as well as the laws and how the king of England wants his people to agree with his decisions even if they do not like them. Those signs show dictatorship
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Some of them go to school about farming and to learn skills in the field. They use to work for only six hours per day. Women do not have hard tasks. Women are expecting to cook, clean and do all the housework. In book two of Utopia, Hythloday wants to continue his point about this perfect society, so he shows different images that support the idea of this ideal place. The description given by him about the garden is similar to the garden of Eden in the bible. He describes Utopia as a beautiful place fills with gardens and farms. Children use to follow their faith’s path and if they do not do so, they use to be send to a different household, that he has the same interest as them, which is unfair because not everyone likes what their parents do, and some children like to try different things to learn and experience more on their own. As states in the text, “But if a man’s mind stands for any other, he is by adoption put into a family of that occupation which he doth most fantasy.” (pg.57) This shows that Utopia is not a perfect place as it said, because if it is then utopians would have the choice of choosing their own path and make their own decisions. Only certain people in Utopian are allowing to study and obtain an education instead of labor work. They have the same level of understanding in the fields of logic, geometry, arithmetic, and music as
Some of them go to school about farming and to learn skills in the field. They use to work for only six hours per day. Women do not have hard tasks. Women are expecting to cook, clean and do all the housework. In book two of Utopia, Hythloday wants to continue his point about this perfect society, so he shows different images that support the idea of this ideal place. The description given by him about the garden is similar to the garden of Eden in the bible. He describes Utopia as a beautiful place fills with gardens and farms. Children use to follow their faith’s path and if they do not do so, they use to be send to a different household, that he has the same interest as them, which is unfair because not everyone likes what their parents do, and some children like to try different things to learn and experience more on their own. As states in the text, “But if a man’s mind stands for any other, he is by adoption put into a family of that occupation which he doth most fantasy.” (pg.57) This shows that Utopia is not a perfect place as it said, because if it is then utopians would have the choice of choosing their own path and make their own decisions. Only certain people in Utopian are allowing to study and obtain an education instead of labor work. They have the same level of understanding in the fields of logic, geometry, arithmetic, and music as