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Violence
Barely any
Some discussion of war and punishment in the Utopian system
Language
None
No profanity; Renaissance scholarly Latin in translation
Sexual Content
Barely any
Marriage and human relationships discussed in the social context
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The philosophical challenge of a 'perfect' society that requires conformity; requires engagement with the ambiguity of More's intent
What this book is about
Raphael Hythloday has spent five years on the island of Utopia, where property is communal, gold is used for chamber pots to discourage its worship, and the state is organized by reason rather than tradition. More's 1516 political dialogue presents Utopia as a mirror held up to European Christianity's contradictions—though whether More endorses or critiques the Utopian model is, characteristically, left deliberately ambiguous. The founding text of the utopian tradition.
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An idealized society that some readers find appealing and others find disturbing in its conformity
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