More imagined an island where greed was eliminated.
Day 3 · 목표 ⭐
On the imagined island of Utopia, private property had been abolished, all citizens worked six hours daily, goods were distributed by need rather than wealth, and competitive anxiety had been removed by design.
2Reading· 오늘의 본문
We · Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Thomas More's Utopia is a vision of an island society built on principles of absolute equality. Having abolished private property, the Utopians live in identical houses and share all resources. Working only six hours a day, they dedicate their free time to study, art, and community. With goods distributed according to need rather than wealth, the corrosive anxiety of competition is absent. More imagined a place where the root of greed had been removed by design, creating a calm and orderly life. The citizens, freed from the desperate struggle for possessions, find fulfillment in intellectual and civic pursuits. This ideal structure challenges the reader to consider the true sources of human happiness and social conflict.
B2 · 128 wordsavg 25.6 w/s
In 'Utopia', Thomas More constructs a meticulously designed social experiment, predicated on the radical elimination of private property. This foundational act dismantles the conventional engines of avarice and social stratification. Consequently, all citizens contribute six hours of daily labor to essential crafts and agriculture, with the resultant abundance being stored in communal warehouses. Distribution, based on need rather than wealth, systematically eradicates the material insecurities that fuel competitive anxiety in other societies. The island's structure is a conscious engineering of harmony, replacing possessive individualism with a collective identity. More's narrative, however, is layered with irony; the very perfection of Utopia's systems—its uniform housing, regulated leisure, and absence of financial motive—invites scrutiny. It prompts the critical question of whether such a society, having removed the friction of desire, might also extinguish the innovative spark and personal ambition that often drive human progress, presenting a serene but potentially static vision of justice. What makes Utopia endure as a work of literature is precisely this refusal to offer easy consolation — it demands that readers sit with the discomfort of a world that does not resolve neatly, and find their own position within it.
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3Vocabulary· 핵심 어휘 & 연습
abolished
폐지하다
In Utopia, private property had been abolished, creating a foundation for equality.
distributed
분배되다
Goods were distributed from communal storehouses according to each family's need.
anxiety
불안, 걱정
The removal of wealth-based competition eliminated a major source of social anxiety.
eliminated
제거되다
More believed greed could be eliminated through careful social design.
communal
공동의, 공유의
Utopians ate their meals in large communal dining halls.
Activity 1 · 빈칸 채우기5 questions
1. Every hour of D-503's life was carefully ____ by the Table of Hours.
2. The ____ of privacy did not exist in the One State.
3. Individual names were ____ and replaced with numbers.
4. The glass walls guaranteed there was no ____ for citizens.
5. The State was ____ declared to represent perfect happiness.