What might the interplay between fiction and reality in Utopia mean for More's message?
- Do we get a resolution to the dialogue? What is More's point?
- How is the dialogue linked to the description of Utopia?

- What are some of the central features of the Utopian commonwealth?
- Is More speaking through Hythloday, or through the character of More?

What is the meaning of 'utopia'? Are there different kinds?
- Is there a 'utopian tradition' before Thomas More's book?
- How might we characterize the 'stages' of the utopian tradition after the publication of Utopia?
- What are some of the different ways in which More's Utopia has been read? What are some of the different ways in which the idea of 'utopia' has been thought of?

- What are some of the essential differences between Cicero's view of politics and Plato's?
- Is Cicero thinking of an ideal situation? Is he a 'utopian' thinker?
- What are some of Cicero's central arguments about political engagement?

- Are these texts 'utopias'? Why or why not?
- What is Plato's purpose in writing the Republic?
- Why does Lucian say he is writing his True History? What is the purpose of falsehood for him?
- What do these texts have in common? What differentiates them?

- How might we characterize the humanist project? What were they trying to do? What is 'humanism'?
- What were some of Erasmus' aims in his writing?
- What is the purpose of Education of a Christian Prince? How does it compare with Plato and Cicero?

How did the discovery of the new world change European perspectives?
- Why does More use travel writing as a backdrop to his Utopia?
- What is the relationship between travel writing and utopian writing?

- What elements of More's context might be relevant to his writing of Utopia?
- What events were occurring in England and on the continent which might be reflected in More's text?
- Some of the most interesting elements of More's biography occur after Utopia was written, can we use them to think about Utopia?

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