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tamutheshamu 's review for:
Utopia
by Thomas More
I think I would need a higher more in-depth understanding of the text in order to give this a higher rating. However, as an incoming junior in high school at this stage in my life, “Utopia” was just not something I really enjoyed as an overall book.
I’ll start with the good parts. There are lots of places in “Book 1” that strike my fancy, especially when Raphael speaks about his ideas on why there is crime and theft in the kingdoms around Utopia and in England, as well as how the old justice system could be improved. This I do find interesting, and his ideas are very solid.
However, it seems as though Thomas More begins to incorporate more and more themes of communal farming and communism into the book nearing the end of “Book 1” and into the majority of “Book 2”. It wouldn’t be exactly right to look at this book as only a communist manifesto of some sorts, as there are most likely artistic elements that I cannot find but I’m sure are there; but in general, the theme of “equality among all” is extremely heavy when approaching the second half of the book.
If anyone’s got any more explanations for Utopia, feel free to leave a reply!
I’ll start with the good parts. There are lots of places in “Book 1” that strike my fancy, especially when Raphael speaks about his ideas on why there is crime and theft in the kingdoms around Utopia and in England, as well as how the old justice system could be improved. This I do find interesting, and his ideas are very solid.
However, it seems as though Thomas More begins to incorporate more and more themes of communal farming and communism into the book nearing the end of “Book 1” and into the majority of “Book 2”. It wouldn’t be exactly right to look at this book as only a communist manifesto of some sorts, as there are most likely artistic elements that I cannot find but I’m sure are there; but in general, the theme of “equality among all” is extremely heavy when approaching the second half of the book.
If anyone’s got any more explanations for Utopia, feel free to leave a reply!