In the early 1500s two great works were written by Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli. Thomas More wrote Utopia, and Machiavelli the Prince, respectively. Both of these works tried to depict ways of improving society. They contradicted each other in the sense that More’s work depicted a more imaginative point of reference while Machiavelli's portrayed a more realistic viewpoint. All things considered, More’s work illustrates a superior standard of how to obtain a happy, comfortable, and stable society. This is evident in its depiction of a just economy, its take on religion, and its stable social classes. In More’s Utopia the economy is heavily described in detail and dives deeply into equality among the classes. This is apparent when more says, “Among the Utopians virtue has its reward, yet …show more content…
This in turn provides many benefits. For example, people would no longer need to worry about financial and food related problems. This allows it to be less stressful and in turn the morale of the population is much higher than those of a traditional system, like Machiavelli’s. Similarly, More’s Utopia is also stronger in the area of religion. More has an optimistic and inclusive way of thinking about religion. He says:
He therefore left men wholly to their liberty, that they might be free to believe as they should see cause; only he made a solemn and severe law against such as should so far degenerate from the dignity of human nature, as to think that our souls died with our bodies, or that the world was governed by chance, without a wise overruling