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A 6 page paper which compares how Daniel Defoe, in The Consolidator, and Thomas More, in Utopia, see the problems of English society. No additional sources cited.
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and in English power in general. They are works that speak out, in satirical and subtle ways, against the English culture and illustrate how the English are not necessarily the
best nor do they possess the best possible approach to many social needs. The following paper compares the two works as they criticize the English. Problems of English
Society: Defoe and More In Defoes novel the reader is faced with many complex images, and perhaps even a confusing scenario that is hard to keep track of. In essence,
it is a very detailed and often hard to understand text. But, the premise is that the narrator is telling of journeys, primarily journeys to China and the Moon. Throughout
these journeys he presents wondrous images and conditions that lay in contrast to England. For example, in the beginning he speaks of China and the wondrous things within China, things
that stand subtly in contrast to those in England: "And as the Chineses have many sorts of Learning which these Parts of the World never heard of, so all those
useful Inventions which we admire ourselves so much for, are vulgar and common with them, and were in use long before our Parts of the World were Inhabited. Thus Gun-powder,
Printing, and the use of the Magnet and Compass, which we call Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but fall so far short of the Perfection of
Art they have attained to" (Defoe 8). In this one can clearly see that Defoe is claiming how arrogant English society is,
how they assume they have the market on every wonderful invention of modern man when, in fact, they are not the inventors or the owners of great art and science.
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