Utopia Lesson Plan

What might More be trying to say about human nature through the rigid, structured lives of the Utopians?

Some would argue that the Utopian institutions reveal a lack of trust in human nature. The Utopians have multiple safeguards to protect their society against the threats of tyranny, fraud, and deception. Regarding treaties, the Utopians—unlike their Old World counterparts—no longer trust in them or sign them. Either a treaty is broken or it is written with so many loopholes that it becomes ineffective.

The Utopians argue that legal and political language is consistently used to misrepresent the truth. By eliminating many of the contexts wherein truth is profitably...