U-topia definition
U-topia means “no-place” and More was conscious of the pun with “eu-topia” meaning “good-place”. Utopia is nowhere, because it is fictional, but also because it is applicable in every place as a challenge to the way life is being lived there; at the same time, it is nowhere, because no one would ever want or be able to live as the Utopians do. More’s Utopia is a good place, but it is not without its limits and problems. The way the word “Utopianism” is used today might seem to imply that More’s work is of the idealizing kind, proposing a model of an alternative, perfect society; this is not correct. In many ways, More’s Utopia is a terribly inhuman society. In literary history More’s work has inspired such famous social satires as Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Orwell’s 1984. Much modern science fiction is either eu-topian or “dystopian” (from “dys-topia” meaning a bad place) but no writer has offered so deeply challenging a text as More.
U-topia means "no-place" and More was conscious of the pun with "eu-topia" meaning "good-place". Utopia is nowhere, because it is fictional, but also because it is applicable in every place as a challenge to the way life is being lived there; at the same time, it is nowhere, because no one would ever want or be able to live as the Utopians do. More's Utopia is a good place, but it is not without its limits and problems.