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Thomas More
1.Thomas More （托马斯•莫尔） 2. Utopia 《乌托邦》 3. Comments on Thomas More
Thomas More (1478—1535)
Life and Career
Born in a middle-class family Spokesman of London merchants Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII(1529) He was a prose writer in the English Renaissance. He was one of the best representatives of the English humanists.
More’s Family
When Henry VIII divorced his wife, and married Anne Boleyn, More refused to attend the coronation of Boleyn and was marked for vengeance. A number of false charges were soon brought against More.
Biblioteka Baidu More’s Limitations
Most of Book I is a dialogue between the three men who have gathered to discuss Hythloday's travels
In the second book, an ideal society is presented in the form of Utopia, one that many European countries should emulate. The second book is an explanation of the many laws and customs of Utopian society.
countries with their strange customs also provided More with a fresh perspective. 2. Definition of Utopia The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out.
Two parts:
Utopia, Book One; Utopia, Book Two.
Utopia (1516)
1. Background information Plato’s Republic The recent explorations of the newly discovered
Utopia is an island
Large bay that protects it from the ocean and wind. The bay allows for easy internal shipping and travel, but makes any sort of external attack unlikely
Structure
Utopia is divided into two books.
The first book describes the unacceptable social conditions of English and European society in the 16th C. where the division between the rich and the poor was quite wide and those in power practiced unethical and self-serving politics.
Utopia deals primarily with the question of the relation of the State and the individual.
Utopia is an enlightened pagan community All land and goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed; there is no private property of any kind. All the citizens are on an equal footing and have the same rights. Every one must engage in physical labor.
More was convicted and executed in 1535.
More’s Utopia 《乌托邦》
More’s masterpiece. It is written in the form of a conversation between a returned and experienced voyager, and More himself. It is also a detailed description of the social condition of England.
Major Themes
Utopia reveals the ideal conditions of a society and his solution to the many social illness that were pervasive in the 16th C. Europe.
1.Thomas More （托马斯•莫尔） 2. Utopia 《乌托邦》 3. Comments on Thomas More
Thomas More (1478—1535)
Life and Career
Born in a middle-class family Spokesman of London merchants Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII(1529) He was a prose writer in the English Renaissance. He was one of the best representatives of the English humanists.
More’s Family
When Henry VIII divorced his wife, and married Anne Boleyn, More refused to attend the coronation of Boleyn and was marked for vengeance. A number of false charges were soon brought against More.
Biblioteka Baidu More’s Limitations
Most of Book I is a dialogue between the three men who have gathered to discuss Hythloday's travels
In the second book, an ideal society is presented in the form of Utopia, one that many European countries should emulate. The second book is an explanation of the many laws and customs of Utopian society.
countries with their strange customs also provided More with a fresh perspective. 2. Definition of Utopia The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out.
Two parts:
Utopia, Book One; Utopia, Book Two.
Utopia (1516)
1. Background information Plato’s Republic The recent explorations of the newly discovered
Utopia is an island
Large bay that protects it from the ocean and wind. The bay allows for easy internal shipping and travel, but makes any sort of external attack unlikely
Structure
Utopia is divided into two books.
The first book describes the unacceptable social conditions of English and European society in the 16th C. where the division between the rich and the poor was quite wide and those in power practiced unethical and self-serving politics.
Utopia deals primarily with the question of the relation of the State and the individual.
Utopia is an enlightened pagan community All land and goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed; there is no private property of any kind. All the citizens are on an equal footing and have the same rights. Every one must engage in physical labor.
More was convicted and executed in 1535.
More’s Utopia 《乌托邦》
More’s masterpiece. It is written in the form of a conversation between a returned and experienced voyager, and More himself. It is also a detailed description of the social condition of England.
Major Themes
Utopia reveals the ideal conditions of a society and his solution to the many social illness that were pervasive in the 16th C. Europe.