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
On the island of Utopia, the air felt different. There were no fences, no grand houses looming over smaller ones. Work was a shared rhythm, not a desperate scramble. Each morning, Raphael saw citizens heading to their farms or workshops, knowing their six hours of labour contributed to the whole community's storehouse. At day's end, they took what they needed from the public halls—clothes, food, tools. No one hoarded, for there was nothing to buy and no wealth to flaunt. The frantic anxiety of competition was gone, replaced by a quiet, collective purpose. People had time—for gardens, for study, for conversation under the evening sky. It was a society built not on having, but on being.
B2 · 128 wordsavg 25.6 w/s
More's vision in 'Utopia' fundamentally reimagines the relationship between labour, property, and human fulfilment. By abolishing private property, he severs the root of social stratification and avarice. The six-hour workday is not a concession but a recalibration; labour becomes a civic duty, its fruits collectively owned and distributed according to need, rendering wealth obsolete. This system, engineered to eliminate competitive anxiety, posits that true justice arises from dismantling the very mechanisms of comparison and accumulation. The communal distribution of property and labour creates a flattened social landscape where identity is untethered from material possession. Consequently, time and energy are liberated from the pursuit of goods, redirecting them toward intellectual and communal pursuits. More suggests that a just society is not one where all compete for more, but where all are secured from the need to compete at all, finding purpose in contribution rather than acquisition. 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
On Utopia, private property had been abolished, so no one could own land individually.
distributed
분배되다
Goods were distributed from communal storehouses to every citizen based on their needs.
anxiety
불안, 걱정
The removal of wealth competition led to a society free from financial anxiety.
eliminated
제거되다
More imagined a society where the root cause of greed, private ownership, was eliminated.
communal
공동의, 공유의
All work was done for the communal good, not for personal profit.
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.