LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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The Utopia
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Beowulf
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Wanderer, Deor, and The Seafarer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Utopia, book by Thomas More, published in 1516. Derived from the Greek for “no place” (ou topos) and coined by More, the word utopia refers to an imaginary and perfect world, an ideally organized state.
Detailed explanation-2: -More’s Utopia describes a pagan and communist city-state in which the institutions and policies are entirely governed by reason.
Detailed explanation-3: -At its heart, the book poses the question of whether there could ever be such a thing as a “perfect” world and served as a platform to highlight the chaos of European politics at the time. The book, written in 1516, is More’s attempt to suggest ways to improve European society, using “Utopia” as an example.
Detailed explanation-4: -16th-17th centuries. Utopia (1516) by Thomas More. The City of the Sun (1623) by Tommaso Campanella – Depicts a theocratic and egalitarian society. The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish – Describes a utopian society in a story mixing science-fiction, adventure, and autobiography.