Example Of A Utopia Research Paper

"I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find" (Kira Salak).The late 16th century held a period of religious conflict within England. This was due to the fact that King Henry the VIII wanted a divorce and the Pope denied his request. Eleven years prior to this occurrence, Sir Thomas More, who was an important advisor to the king wrote Utopia. More's purpose was to simply demonstrate to his readers what a utopia would be like because what they were living in was actually the opposite; a dystopia. Henry the VII came to the decision of taking over the head

of the church himself to get what he wanted to be accomplished. This caused the splitting of the Catholic Church and the forming of the Church of England. Furthermore, a religious conflict is essentially a religious war consisting of differences in religion. Additionally, the perfect place that can be created imaginatively, however, can almost never be reached is known as a utopia. Whereas a dystopia is the opposite, it is not a perfect place, but a place full of destruction and terror. Through Utopia, More criticized and provided the leaders of his time with keen insights to help improve his world by claiming that the leaders should not use poverty as a means to help control their people, bring disrespect to the position by keeping their people in poverty and manipulate the laws to take away people's rights to control them.