For Reading 19.2, Thomas More’s Utopia: Plato’s ideal society in the Republic is presented as an attainable ideal, but More’s Utopia is a fiction and, by implication, unattainable. Why does More choose to make his ideal community a fiction?
What will be an ideal response?
Responses to this question may vary widely, but the best responses will consider the contrast between More’s Utopia and the social and political realities of England during his lifetime. At the heart of the critique is More’s implicit comparison between his own corrupt Christian society and the ideal society he imagines. In this ideal society, equality, kindness, and charity are the virtues most esteemed by all. In short, Utopia seemed the very antithesis of England during More’s lifetime.
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