How Does Thomas Moore Create A Undivided Society

Nichole Mallozzi
11/7/2014
HUM 2232
Utopia essay When the word utopia is mentioned oddly enough we often think of a dysfunctional society with secrets run by corrupt people. Thomas Moore however has created a utopia so intricate and smoothly run we cannot help but think life would be much easier that way. Moore shows us there is a way of life where everyone in a society can be united as one close community without a need for greed, hunger, or selfishness. It is as if those emotions do not exist, there is no need for them, imagine a world like that. It is clear from the beginning Thomas Moore has key factors in creating this evolved undivided society. First and foremost the people play a vital role in the upbringing of the community, the actions from the civilians are what shapes the utopia without them it would be nothing. Aside from the
“Agriculture is that which is so universally understood among them that no person, either man or woman, is ignorant of it; they are instructed in it from their childhood, partly by what they learn at school, and partly by practice, they being led out often into the fields about the town , where they not only see others at work but are likewise exercised in it themselves” (Moore 5). Utopians are obsessed with land that they can grow crops on, thats naturally what they are good at. Agriculture is clearly essential to citizens. Having this innate ability to grow food provides a lack of worry for the utopians they always have enough food for supper without having to think twice. This is a vital key in sustaining Moore’s utopia. Peace throughout the utopia is easily maintained when no citizen ever has to worry about putting food on their plates, when there is constantly a supply of a necessity in a citizens life there is not much more to worry about and that facilitates a worry free, easy-going lifestyle. That is incredibly hard to come