GK
WORLD GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Thomas More
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Bernard Shaw
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Vladimir Nabokov
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William Shakespeare
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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: -Thomas More (1478-1535) was a lawyer, scholar, and writer, who published “Utopia” in 1516.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1516 the statesman and scholar Thomas More published a work describing an ideal island state – he called it Utopia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Like Plato’s Republic, More’s Utopia is the creation of a well-meaning member of the upper classes with a plan, rather than the live-for-the-moment dream of a peasant or worker. In Utopia, private property is abolished. “There is nothing within the houses that is private or any man’s own, ‘’ writes More.