utopia
utopia
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by Sharon White - 2006-12-18
The dream land of abandoned paradise has always attracted people minds and some of the most powerful of them was trying to create such dream land within their countries. Another group of dreamers were...
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by Sharon White - 2007-01-25
Like More's utopian society that existed on an island set apart from society as a whole, utopian writers typically describe their utopian society as being isolated from the rest of the world. An indiv...
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by Sharon White - 2007-01-25
Adam and Eve lived in paradise where all of their comforts were provided for, soon however they began to tire of paradise and want to look beyond, into the forbidden zones. Similar events occur in the...
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by Sharon White - 2007-01-23
Upon first glance then one could be under the impression that Utopia would be a pleasant place to live in. Everyone is equal, immoral acts such as adultery are punishable, and there is no private o...
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by Sharon White - 2007-02-04
More is a forerunner of communism before Marx decided to toss the idea around in the 1830s. More's Utopia presents the world where there is a nothing short of religious doctrine, not good morality...
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by Kate Gardens - 2007-02-07
If forced to answer the question ‘Would you like to live in More's Utopia?' based on the evidence of the extract, one would be inclined to say, no.There is a manifest rhetoric and repetition in t...
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by Kate Gardens - 2007-02-07
In the first part of the book there are lengthy dialogues between More and Hythloday, an introduction More used to show the reader the politics and social issues prevalent in Utopia.This introduces...
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by Kate Gardens - 2007-02-09
Thomas More contributed a perfect world, or at least a perfectible one, with his Utopia of 1516. In it a wanderer, Raphael Hythloday, relates to More and his friend Peter Giles of Antwerp the topo...
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by Gabriel Rise - 2007-03-27
Thomas More's Utopia was written during the Renaissance, a period famed for its hitherto unprecedented cultural output. Among the ‘discoveries' that occurred then was that of the New World by Eur...
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by Gabriel Rise - 2007-03-27
The question of whether one would like to live in More's Utopia should not indeed, can not be answered lightly. The confusion one might experience in approaching such a question is mirrored in the ...