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Utopia

Published on Dec 02, 2015

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UTOPIA: THOMAS MORE

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DEFINITION

A utopia is a community or society having highly desirable or near perfect qualities.
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GREEK TRANSLATION

  • The word "utopia" is derived from two Greek words
  • "Eu" means 'good' and 'place'
  • "Outopía" means both 'no-place-land' and 'good-place-land'
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Relativism

A utopia is usually thought of when the real world sees no way out of hardship
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The Utopia was a way of looking for justice and happiness.

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WAY OF LIFE

  • Thomas More imagined a complex, self-contained world set on an island.
  • He also imagined the communities with a common culture and way of life
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FIRST IDEA OF UTOPIA

Thomas More wrote the first formal utopia in 1516.
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Thomas More's Utopia was published in Latin

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THOMAS MORE DEFINED SYSTEMS AND CUSTOMS OF:

  • Punishment
  • Social hierarchy
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Marriage, dress, and death
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FICTIONAL SOCIETY

  • Utopia is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society
  • It also describes the religious, social and political customs.
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UNREACHABLE

The island of Utopia has no assignable location, therefore, unreachable.
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UTOPIA IS THE PERFECT CITY

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