About Certain Parts from Utopia by Sir Thomas More

The text generally describes the geography and certain aspects of Utopia's social life, and
the narrator does this by explicitly showing how content he is by telling these. He also makes
frequent comparisons between the Utopia and the 'real' world to indicate how things are
done better in Utopia. This general atmosphere and thereby the theme can be described as
‘a perfect country’. It was very interesting to see the features of communal life centuries
before it is defined as Communism we know today; I liked how the narrator excitedly
mentions each thing about the life and gives examples to clarify because as he admits that if
he had not seen with his own eyes, he would not believe people live like this in Utopia.
Although I liked this positive atmosphere, what I did not like is that the narrator does not
mention anything about problems and the happiness of the citizens which I think would be a
serious issue in a society living like this. Another thing is that, even though Utopians do not
have money to create inequalities in the society, there are people who have the right of
imposing sanctions over other people which also is a power and power is bound to corrupt in
human beings' hand. To sum up, in my opinion, Utopian society is far from perfect, and the
narrator is far from being objective about what he saw. On page 513, while he was telling
about the valuelessness of gold, the analogy between mother and the nature is actually a
very common one, but here it is put more detailed and beautifully. In 512, the narrator
mentions how Utopians hatch the eggs which made me think that human beings, like the
chicks here, serve and value the thing what gives them what they need, not what created
them.
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