9 items | 4 visits
AP Euro Project MP #4
Updated on Apr 26, 13
Created on Apr 26, 13
Category: Schools & Education
URL:
Quiding Question #1
Guiding Question #2
DESCRIPTION OF UTOPIA (GQ 2,3)
Guiding Question #3
Guiding Question #3
As a writer More is best known for his book Utopia, published in 1516. Utopia was fist published in Latin. It wasn't until 1551, twenty years after More's death, that Utopia was translated into English. During More's time scholars still wrote and published in Latin. It wasn't until later in his life, when the Renaissance had begun, that literature was also transcribed in secular languages. Utopia was translated into German, Italian, and French. Utopia begins (the complete version: More actually wrote Book 1 of Utopia after he wrote Book 2) with More and traveler, Raphael, discussing the general disintegration of English society caused by the end of serfdom and the movement of peasants from rural communities to urban cities. In Book 2 Raphael retells how he is salvaged from the pitfalls of his corrupt society when he is shipwrecked on an island called Utopia.
Through his book Utopia More has become known as 'the father of the Utopian novel'. More's Utopia was the blueprint for Utopian Literature. In his book, he develops the defects of his society, he then explains what changes could be made to redeem his society. This is all done in prose, lending each artist a large landscape for them to develop their 'pe
9 items | 4 visits
AP Euro Project MP #4
Updated on Apr 26, 13
Created on Apr 26, 13
Category: Schools & Education
URL: