In Thomas More’s Utopia, we are shown a place that is on an island. On this island the actions of people and government are very different to the ones of that time(being 1516). In this book, it is discussed alternative emthods of rule that could have improved that society, in my opinion, to a more humane and less greedy nation despite still having some flawed logic. However, what this book poses to represent is how both More thought a Utopian society in existence might operate as ewll as give insight into how the thoughts oabout how thigns like war and crime could be dealt with.
The attitude towards war in this book, for example, is one that is very different than that of More’s native country of England. In Utopia, all the things that make you glorious in a regular English war are shameful. They are completely against senseless killing. They never celebrate any war that is not won through strategy and the lack of bloodshed.
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They must be defending their country 2. They must be defending a friend 3. They must be helping another be delivered from tyranny. All of these are in no way in the form of the ulterior motive used by the people of that time where they would say that their war may be for that reason when it really about conquest. The Utopians beleieved that they shouln’t be coerced by the promise of conquest.
It seems everything materialistic that is held dear to the people of the real world is looked down upon by the Utopians. Even ther chamber pots are made of gold and it is not used in their society. This symbolizes that they have no use for a metal that doesn’t have any actual value that what we give it. They only keep it in reserve in the case of war. At no other time are they to mingle with such unclean practices that lead to extensive