Sir Thomas More - Utopia

In Utopia, More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means ‘no place’ and his narrator’s name, Hythlodaeus, translates as ‘dispenser of nonsense’.  This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More’s society.  Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance, provision for the aged, and state ownership of land, Utopia has been variously claimed as a Catholic tract or an argument for communism and it still invites each generation to make its own interpretation.

 

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