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This article examines More's vision of an ideal society, analyzing its fundamental principles, internal conflicts, and enduring significance as both a political treatise and a literary work. The work innovates by combining political theory with the emerging genre of the travelogue, a form that allowed European writers to critique their own societies through the invented perspective of an outsider observing alien customs.
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