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Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"
2012. urn:nbn:hr:142:285201
Matušin, Ines
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Matušin, I. (2012). Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia" (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

Matušin, Ines. "Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

Matušin, Ines. "Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

Matušin, I. (2012). 'Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 15 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

Matušin I. Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia" [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2012 [cited 2025 January 15] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

I. Matušin, "Ideal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2012. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:285201

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TitleIdeal or totalitarian society in Thomas More's "Utopia"
Title (croatian)Idealističko ili totalitarističko društvo u djelu Thomasa Morea "Utopija"
AuthorInes Matušin
MentorBiljana Oklopčić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2012-09-10, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Thomas More was one of the most prominent Renaissance humanists, philosophers and politicians. His main occupation was to change and rationalize English society, especially King Henry VIII and English nobility. More’s fight against feudal society, King’s repression and supremacy of the Anglican Church can best be seen in his Utopia. This book contrasts the controversial social life of European states with the perfectly ordered social arrangements of Utopia. Through many unusual obligations and usual customs of people in Utopia, More tried to create a society that would completely oppose English Society in the 16th century. In 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. On the other side, there are also disadvantages of Utopians’ life so some take the novel's principal idea to be the social need for order, discipline, and control rather than liberty and democracy. At the end of the book, More himself admits that his initial idea to compose ideal society failed, but his work was not futile. English society praised him, but the King got him incarcerated and executed. Yet, his Utopia has been studied and many politicians and scientists find Utopia one of the greatest examples of the opposition to absolute monarchy.
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Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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