Monday, February 24, 2014

The city of the Sun by Tommaso Campanells

Tommaso Campanells depicts his Utopian world with almost all dimensions of human life. Among those, the physical environment is one of the essential one which provides readers a safe place to live.
http://www.universutopia.net/note.asp?L=EN&note_id=42
The City of the Sun as described by T. Campanella

As Genoese Sea-Captain- a character in the text- describes, "the greater part of the city is built upon a high hill" so that the citizens can see what is happening outside the city easily while the outside people do not have a whole view of inside city. Houses are not built in square blocks like in the United States but in circles. There are seven circumferences which the outer protect the inner. There are only four entrances to get in the city which helps enhance security.
People in the city seem to have and share arts, honors, and pleasure equally, but they have to maintain it with so many magistrates. This makes me feel like they are in control all the time. Besides, "men and women wear the same kind of garment, suited for war". In my opinion, being beauty is the most important thing that makes women happy.
I agree that the physical environment can be considered utopia but the society.

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