Why Has Utopian Literature Remained Popular

All works of Utopian literature are designed to present ideologies and protest. Through this they have maintained their popularity whilst retaining the ability to reformulate. This ability to reformulate itself has created a way for authors to explore and investigate ideologies and protests whilst keeping the issues contextual to the time. More has done this extremely well, establishing the genre at the beginning of the 16th century, in his novella Utopia. By using Rafael as the narrator he successfully presents his alternative of a communistic style state where everyone is equal, whilst keeping him safe; also convincing them that it was a non-fiction text and as a result protecting himself from punishment. He did this so successfully that many men set off in their boats in search of the island. This satire is part of what I think has cause the continued popularity of the text. Alma De Groen subverts More’s form of a single setting novella by creating play in two time frames; the present scene and the 1922 scene. De Groen takes us on a journey through Katherine Mansfield’s eyes and we see two worlds, the patriarchal society of 1922 and the matriarchal society of the present. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, is a novel, published in 1961, that focuses on the corruption of war. Given the context this novel was very popular because of recent and current war times affecting people.
Utopia has remained a popular text for centuries due to the fact that it was believed to be a non-fictional tale. * He cleverly used the character “Raphael Nonsenso” as his narrator to present his the story of Utopia which masks his protest against the feudal system and the monarchy of Tudor England. * He also used made up satirical names based on Greek words to protect himself, for example, Utopia means ‘no place’ in Greek. * These tricks enabled More to make his protest with less risk of retribution from the King and others in power in Tudor England
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