Thomas More's Utopia

Poverty and War
Thomas More's Utopia is a book on political theory. Utopia is a well written text with a complex structure. The book is presented in two different narrative perspectives of Raphael Hythloday and Thomas More himself. More discusses various issues that were common in the past. Poverty is an issue that is discussed numerous times throughout Utopia. In this paper I will discuss the connection between poverty and war, the relationship between private property and poverty, and the impact of the enclosure of common land in Britain upon the poor population.
War is the main cause of poverty; it causes people to loose their homes and employment. Many soldiers who fight in a war, are usually homeless. They don’t have any other skills, therefore, they don’t see any harm in fighting the war. Once they become injured in the war, for example loose their leg or arm, they are unable to make a living for themselves. Hythloday states, “These men, who have lost their lim...