![]() ![]() The reception of the work has been shaped by this ambivalence audiences have interpreted Utopia both as an excoriation and a defense of communism. Although told primarily from the limited first-person vantage of More (who also appears as a character ), the work is mostly presented as faithful recollection of the words of a character named “Raphael Nonsenso.” In the original text Raphael’s name appears in Greek as “ Hythlodaeus,” meaning “dispenser of nonsense.” For these reasons, it remains unclear whether More is primarily satirizing communist views or capitalist and monarchist views, or both. The book shifts, for instance, between fictional documentary evidence like poems and letters to More’s recollection of his meeting with Raphael. In his most famous and controversial book. Thomas More, Paul Turner (Translator) 3.55. The complex, multigenre framing allows More to cultivate some distance between his views as an author and the philosophical and political positions espoused in the book. In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of. ![]() The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Turner,35 it was Stewart Brand and The Whole Earth Catalogue who were the. Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 6 July 1535) published in 1516 in Latin. More combines various elements from philosophical dialogues (such as Plato’s Republic) and New World travel literature (such as the pamphlets of Amerigo Vespucci) to frame the discussion. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Penguin, ISBN 978-0143128632. 6 Thomas Mores Utopia (1516/1901) is an early version of a travellers tale. Utopia describes an ideal island nation from which the novel receives its name.
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