alanffm 's review for:

Utopia by Thomas More
3.0

Thomas More has that familiar English wit you find in novels like Gulliver's Travels. That is really the highlight of this book: clever writing and clever wordplay. As far as the ideas behind Utopia are concerned, I have to say I wholeheartedly do not agree with them. Utopia is clearly a major precursor to Marx's works and the communist ideas that would later emerge during Europe's industrial age. Utopia's age is itself significant here as it shows how ideals and the concept of a "perfect" world change over time. The punishments More forwards for breaking those ideas is often violence, and that, I feel, undermines the whole Utopian project.