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Utopia is an epoch-making work in the history of English literature as it represents the flowering of the spirit of the Renaissance in England. It was written by the great Christian humanist Sir Thomas More.
Utopia is a Greek word meaning “nowhere”
In utopia there is much more description than narration, in it, there is no private wealth or money. More sees in society what he calls, very much like a Marxist, “a conspiracy of the rich against the poor.”
In Utopia, there is no unemployment, and neither poverty nor surfeiting. All work for six hours and sleep for eight hours. All families have more or less, similar houses. There is no war of aggression.
The Utopians have no lawyers as they have no law. The only law is conformity to Nature. There is exemplary religious tolerance in Utopia, and only those are held culpable who deny divine existence. The Utopians glorify physical culture. According to them, perfect health is “the greatest of all bodily pleasures.” we men are attracted as much by the physical beauty of a woman as “the probity of her life and her obedience.”There is no gambling, drinking, hunting, or thieving.
In England, says, Hythloday, “you first make thieves and then punish them.” The Utopians are very earnest about their moral well being and “a great multitude of every sort of people, both men and women, go to hear lectures.”
Criticism
Utopia is meant by more than merely to be a figment of his idealizing imagination, but a “criticism of life.”It represents in its essentials the socialistic pattern of society and has aptly been called “the first movement of modern socialism.”
