More's Utopian Boundary Blurred Summary

- Why are More’s utopian boundary blurred?

- How does introduction of ironical term- neologism help him explain the philosophical world?

- More’s work introduced utopia to the world.

- Voyage to a land and then back

- More uses irony

- More uses neologism

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Introduction of ironical word like Utopia was the first step to introducing new philosophical ideas, because it gets the reader to think of a place that consist of efficient and only good motives but also that such place may not exist on earth. This irony keeps readers interested in philosophical way of thinking and gives them a reason to debate and think in philosophical direction. Thomas More, the writer of Utopia was the first to introduce Utopian genre to the world. He was inspired

Especially, great amount of ironical statements go under explaining how the lead people in English society, advisors, Friar, etc. are nothing but parasites. The irony that people who are supposed to guide the country acts like “parasites” is seen when Hythloday describes his journey where he met a intellectual fool who was comparing friar and monks to beggars, and later it was seen in book 2 where Hythloday is comparing wealth system and tells us that the one percent aren’t satisfied with how much more wealth they have, but they like to see how much the other ninety-nine percent people don’t have. Moreover, More is using a lot of compare and contrast through Hythloday to explain why England’s system of politics is doomed, while Utopian will succeed. In following statement Hythloday challenges how English schools are ineffective in teaching philosophy by mocking it -“In fact [the Utopians] have not discovered even one of those elaborate rules about restrictions, amplifications and suppositions which our own schoolboys study in the Small Logicals. (2.66)” Hythloday also uses forms of rhetorical questioning to explain why his logic prevails. By saying “Now in a meeting like this one, where so much is at stake, where so many brilliant men are competing to think up schemes of conquest, what if an insignificant

He defends current society while introducing the concept of utopianism through a Portuguese traveler- Hythloday who has been to a certain island called Utopia. More narrates this way to reinforce the characteristic of confusion and also to protect himself from any lethal criticism that may come his way from Henry the eight’s advisory board. By doing this he puts up a safety net of confusion saying that he is actually trying to defend current society, while bringing his philosophical ideas through Hythloday. He also tries to make this as realistic as possible by describing the surroundings of the island which is usually used to put the utopians at geographic advantage. Usually More describes utopians as necessary evil of the world where he ensures that they are smart and they use violence only in case of defense. These characteristics of More’s utopian island like a person going to utopian world and coming back to share valuable information, having geographic advantage, being isolated, self-sustaining, and being advanced in science are shared with other books that followed Utopia like Herland, Peach Blossom Spring, and Blazing world. He also has some dystopian content which seems like un-humanistic in order to show that utopia is a place where betterment of human society takes precedence over nature and personal feelings. This kind of counterproductive arguments