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Melissa wrote a review on Utopia (Penguin Classics)
Pegged as the more poetic version of Plato's Republic, this book fails to ever come into its own by escaping the stereotypes of its author's time period. More, despite being a revolutionary in his vision of what a society could be (and in recognizing the effects economic discrimination has on crime at a time where God was still blamed for misbehavior), still backs significant prejudices. His Utopia may be a land free of racism and religious persecution, but so too is it a land of open sexism and age-ism where women and children are the chattle of their husbands and fathers. Because More was such a revolutionary, I cannot excuse his flagrant chauvanism by citing the contemporary thought. Still, living in war times as we are, I found the section on how the Utopians conduct themselves as warriors to be very interesting... That chapter, at least, didn't have me burning like the urine of a herpes victim...


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