Post by nolan on Jul 5, 2006 4:08:09 GMT -5
Thomas More's 1516 work Utopia inspired an entire genre of fiction (or gave a name to a genre of social exploration that was already there).
And for those of you that have not read it, the society of Utopia is much less Utopian then one might think. And the work itself is quite interesting, being both literature, politics and philosophy but not comfortably being in any of them. It is filled to the brim with a lot of ideas but it doesn't have a real plot.
For this prompt, you are to adapt More's Utopia in to comic book form in some way.
Some ideas:
- Maybe Hythloday takes More and Morton there.
- Maybe Utopia is rediscovered in the present day.
- Maybe the "real" Hythloday of the book was Thomas More.
- Maybe the mighty English navy of Elizabeth I invades Utopia.
- Maybe Thomas More, being a Christian (and a Catholic), distorted the society to fit his own worldview, especially if you want to take the idea that the book was written a few years later during the Reformation.
- Maybe you want to do a story about refugees in Utopia.
- Maybe you want to do a story about one of the other societies Hythloday speaks about.
- If you want to read Utopia as a response to the Wars of the Roses then maybe Hythloday exists during a different time (e.g. The English Civil War) and descibes a society that answers entirely different concerns.
- If you want to read Utopia as a response to the discovery of the New World, how could you read it in a differnet way? What if he was writing as a reflection that the natives were savages? What if he was writing in a climate where the New World wasn't known?
Some extexts and resources:
A scan of (I believe) one of the original editions (the work is in Latin and the page is in German):
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/more/utopia/
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/thomasmore-utopia.html
www.apostles.com/utopia.html
www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1896/more.html
www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm
oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html
www.gutenberg.org/etext/2130
www.online-literature.com/more/utopia/
www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/01-2/lakoutop.html
And for those of you that have not read it, the society of Utopia is much less Utopian then one might think. And the work itself is quite interesting, being both literature, politics and philosophy but not comfortably being in any of them. It is filled to the brim with a lot of ideas but it doesn't have a real plot.
For this prompt, you are to adapt More's Utopia in to comic book form in some way.
Some ideas:
- Maybe Hythloday takes More and Morton there.
- Maybe Utopia is rediscovered in the present day.
- Maybe the "real" Hythloday of the book was Thomas More.
- Maybe the mighty English navy of Elizabeth I invades Utopia.
- Maybe Thomas More, being a Christian (and a Catholic), distorted the society to fit his own worldview, especially if you want to take the idea that the book was written a few years later during the Reformation.
- Maybe you want to do a story about refugees in Utopia.
- Maybe you want to do a story about one of the other societies Hythloday speaks about.
- If you want to read Utopia as a response to the Wars of the Roses then maybe Hythloday exists during a different time (e.g. The English Civil War) and descibes a society that answers entirely different concerns.
- If you want to read Utopia as a response to the discovery of the New World, how could you read it in a differnet way? What if he was writing as a reflection that the natives were savages? What if he was writing in a climate where the New World wasn't known?
Some extexts and resources:
A scan of (I believe) one of the original editions (the work is in Latin and the page is in German):
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/more/utopia/
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/thomasmore-utopia.html
www.apostles.com/utopia.html
www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1896/more.html
www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm
oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html
www.gutenberg.org/etext/2130
www.online-literature.com/more/utopia/
www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/01-2/lakoutop.html