Comparing Margaret Cavendish’s The Description of a New World, Called t

Comparing Marg art Cavendishs The description of a raw orb, Called the crying(a) World and Sir doubting Thomas Mores UtopiaThe so-called Utopia the quasi-perfect society flourishes in Margaret Cavendishs The Description of a New World, Called a Blazing World and Sir Thomas Mores Utopia. While the former is a dreamlike history of fantasy rule and the latter a pseudo-realistic travelogue, both works cay a picture of worlds that are not so perfect after(prenominal) all. These imperfections glitter like false gemstones in the paths of these Utopians phantasmal beliefs, political systems, and philosophic viewpoints. Religion and spirituality reach into the depths of the human psyche and strongly shape a nations way of life. In Margaret Cavendishs Blazing World, the Emperor and the inhabitants of the Blazing World worship Margaret, who renamed herself Margaret the First. Highly revered as a deity by the people, Margaret is surprised to discover that females do not have a high place in the religious fabric of the Blazing World. Wo custody are barred from religious assemblies, because it is promiscuous for men and women to be together during religious worship, so women must remain at home to worship in the privacy of their rooms (Cavendish 1767). Priests and governors are do eunuchs to safeguard them from women and children who, according to Margarets advisors, make too much disturbances in the church and in the state. In Sir Thomas Mores Utopia, women priests are highly regarded. However, churches here are also segregated the men vex on one side and while the women sit on the other. asunder from thinking that the peoples of the Blazing World are segregated as Jews, Turks, or Christians because women are... ...r recognition should not pull through, yet in Mores Utopia, these beliefs exist at the very heart of the citizens being. In both of the purported Utopian worlds, the imperfect religious traditions, rigid governing systems, a nd askew philosophical beliefs botch what are otherwise model worlds for all other nations to imitate. Margaret Cavendish and Sir Thomas More, in their differing styles, are able to convey that no world is perfect, but at that place is room for change, for everyone can fabricate their own imaginary worlds and travelogues.Works CitedCavendish, Margaret. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. 1666, 1668. Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. 2 vols. New York Norton, 2000, 1 1765-1771.More, Sir Thomas. Utopia. 1516. . Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. 2 vols. New York Norton, 2000, 1 1765-1771.