It is pretty much evident that the Utopians are skilled and educated in many, many subjects whether it be science (medicine), agriculture, carpentry, religion, etc.
Some other customs of the Utopians were that women are not allowed to marry until they are eighteen and men aren't allowed until the age of twenty-two. Abstinence is greatly valued and if you disobeyed the law, you would be punished. One of the punishments was to be put into slavery if you had committed a crime. If the crime was done repeatedly, the consequences normally led to severe punishments, but not quite death.
Women were treated fairly equally in this utopia as they were allowed to fight side-by-side with men in the army even though this was mainly for the territory's benefit to be more protected. Though Utopia was not one to start a war, they would definitely fight to defend what they felt was rightfully theirs if it came down to it.
One of the final topics that Raphael rambles on about is the religion of the utopia. Other religions were tolerated, but it seems as though Christianity was one of the more major religions at the time.
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Hey Brianna... I am going to disagree with the first statement that you said about how they are "advanced". On page 70 it talks about how they did do somethings in agriculture and astronomy but it is very basic to the stuff that was going on at the time in Europe. They had thinking and technologies way advanced compared to that of Utopias. Not that it is a bad thing but I would have to blame the partial "non advancing" due to the fact that it has the (loose use of the word) " perfect communism" and doesn't entirely need that. But I definitely see your point.
ReplyDeleteFair enough. I guess I might have missed that part or somehow forgot about it, but it makes a little more sense now.
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