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A 5 page paper which examines the prince in the narration of Raphael Hythloday in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. No additional sources cited.
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of the peoples wishes and desires. In many ways people have argued that his Utopia is primarily a communist form of government of society. Regardless, he presents images of what
a leader should be, primarily a Prince. The following paper examines the narrators perspective of the Prince, or a Prince of such a Utopia. The narrator of Utopia is Raphael
Hythloday. Raphael Hythloday in Mores Utopia One of the first things that the narrator notes concerning a leader that is a
prince is that, "from the prince, as from a perpetual well spring, cometh among the people the flood of all that is good or evil" (More). In this one sees
that the Prince will be a person who can cause utter devastation and oppression for the people, or a person who can help the people grow individually and as a
community, imparting a positive and powerful sense of leadership. For example, if a prince is greedy, desiring only that he gain wealth and prestige, he will take from the people
and the people will perhaps begin to starve because they pay too many taxes, or they begin to complain and ultimately lead to a rebellion in some cases.
Hythloday understands that princes normally have a nature that enjoys money and war, as stated in the following: "For first of all, the most
part of all princes have more delight in warlike matters and feats of chivalry...than in the good feats of peace: and employ much more study, how by right or by
wrong to enlarge their dominions, than how well and peaceably to rule and govern that they have already" (More). While these words
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