What was the book Utopia about?
by Thomas More is a work of the period of the English Renaissance and one of the critical works that served as a predecessor of the Reformation. In this work, More tells of an imaginary island where people live like equals according to perfectly obeyed rules. There is a governing elite which decides on the policy. There is no private property and everyone works to support the group. What is more important, in this book, the author emphasizes that people coexist peacefully, so there is no need for the Church to tell them what to do. This is a very interesting part of the work because it is open to interpretation – whether the author meant that there was no need for the Church, or he thought that the Church and people could coexist peacefully. In his ideas, More was very much influenced by Erasmus Roterdamus, who was a friend of his. Lastly, the very name of the work is loaded with symbolism. “Utopia” as a word coming from Greek is made out of two words – one is “topos”, which means plac
