ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe a perfect imaginary world. More’s book imagines a complex, self-contained community set on an island, in which people share a common culture and way of life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Utopia, with communal ownership of land, private property does not exist, men and women are educated alike, and there is almost complete religious tolerance. These are only some of the benefits of living in More’s country.

Detailed explanation-3: -The idea, of course, was ‘utopia’. More coined the word to describe an island community with an ideal mode of government. First published in Latin in 1517, the book Utopia means “no place” in Greek; some scholars have said that it may also be a pun on “happy place”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Utopia. An imagined ideal society / place in which everything is perfect, pleasant, organized with no worries of money; and in its reality problems or harm do not exist among the Utopians with all things natural. All people are joyful and everything that happens is simply for the greater good of all.