of the 1500’s, with most of Europe believing in the notion of sacrifice and the penance of past sins all in the hopes of having a better life in heaven with God.
This greatly shows the amount of discontent that More felt even though he did not himself realize that he held such feelings, which shows that most utopic visions are usually sparked from the change in social idea’s or political movements and in this case this would have been the breaking away from the catholic church and the forming of the church of England by Henry the VIII. Utopia’s are simply an escape and nothing more because as proven by More attempt they are unattainable and even the notion of them is unrealistic as not only do they usually mean the recalibration of the human condition but also one person’s utopia might be another’s dystopia and therefore not meeting the definition requirements of the word utopia as a utopia must please everyone’s needs.
Another utopic vision is one of Frank Capra in the film Lost Horizon. This film explores the prospects of finding a utopic civilization just as More describes however the intension of this film is not to escape from the normal situations happening but in fact the dilemma of having to choose between staying in this almost too perfect world or returning to the imperfect but familiar of earth. This film is many a times classified as a Utopia due to the perfectness of the new world that R...