The main point that More tried to drive home was that the world he was in now was an awful place. He described a world where he would love to be. More is trying to say with Utopia, that the world as it is outside of the book isn't a good place and that his utopia is where they all should be. .
This book is very biases. More doesn't like the world now, so everything has a negative tone. What color's his opinion is talking to Raphael Hythloday. He hears of other places where he likes their form of government, patterns of law, and economics. More is learning about other places for the first time, and it sounds like the place to be. Much like the old saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side." More starts to form a negative opinion about the world his lives in, and it shows in his writing. It isn't what he says about the present world, it's how he speaks of a New World is where you sense negativity. Everything he speaks of when talking about the utopia world is nothing but beauty. ".Make the whole island look like a new moon. The sea flows in between the horns through a strait empty space protected from the wind on all sides, like an enormous, smooth, unruffled lake;."(PG. 51, Para. 1) He is starting to want to be in a place like that. Who wouldn't? More's criticism isn't fair. He hasn't lived in that New World, so he doesn't know what it's like. He measures a place next to his present world, but has no means of comparison. .
This books tells a lot of what the people of the time where thinking. The book was written in 1516. Feudalism was still taking place in England and Europe. The Renaissance was just starting up, and with this brought the new interests in Ancient Greek and Roman art, reason and science, and humanism. The book was written right before the Reformation. The book was originally written in Latin, which demonstrates what was going on at the time the book was written.
