Book II: pgs. 21-41

Throughout this second section More described his Utopia. All of the housing in Utopia is identical. Everone has same size garden, same paint, and same number of rooms to make sure everything is fair. Everyone owns everything to make everyone equal. These idea make me think that Utopia will not last long because there are always those that are greedy or lazy and sooner or later Utopia will look similar to those countries that have tried communism before.

One of the interesting things I found of the Utopians was how they viewed gold and silver as childrens toys. Since it has no practical purpose it is worthless and as long as a culture thinks gold is worthless it will be worthless. One of the themes that is put forward in the Utopian culture is that if one lives a frugal life everything seems to be abundant.

Although their government seems democratic their travel is strict. If one were to travel without permission throughout Utopia the punishment is a life as a slave. Traveling is one of the ways that knowledge is bred and people find new ideas from the different cultures visited. The travel restrictions seems to also restrict learning and hinders Utopia more than it helps.

Thomas More's Utopia: Book 1

The first book of Utopia generated the ideas that would come forward in More's perfect world. More stressed the idea that capital punishishment should not be used, because human law should never conquer divine law. More believed that the punishment should be to give back the stolen item and live a life of hard work which both helps society and the individual who is no longer killed. The second view is that a king is better off governing rich people than being rich himself. Than all of the people are content and trustful in their modest king. The third concept was that a king cannot properly govern two countries. He will either ignore one and turn the country to turmoil while on prospers, or the king will only half serve both countries. Fourth and last More states that until land is not owned there will always be evil. I do not agree to this because there will always be a source of evil as long as humans are involved. If people are not fighting over land they will fight over food or water.