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!) Thomas More Flashcards

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‘false flatterers…

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puff up a man in pride’ (Dialogue)

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‘flattery shall have…

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more place than plain and faithful advice’ (Richard III)

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‘They endorse and…

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flatter the most absurd statements’ (Utopia)

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Anemolian ambassadors; ‘full of

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gold and chains’ (Utopia)

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‘That takes its…

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cue… adapts itself to the drama in hand and acts its part neatly’ (Utopia)

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‘these matters be…

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kings games, as it were, stage plays, and for the most part played upon scaffolds’ (Richard III)

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‘they disorder the play…

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and do themselves no good’ (Richard III)

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What is significant about the crowd when Richard III is portrayed as initially refusing and then later accepting the crown?

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They have been stage managed

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‘but what if he…

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call it a horn, where am I then?’ (Richard III)

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‘Forsooth, Cousin…

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he played his part very properly’ (Dialogue) - a flatterer, unable to surpass his predecessors obsequiousness, pretends to be overcome by emotion

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Which work by Erasmus helps explain the pun on the name of the character More?

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Erasmus, Moriae Encomium (1511) [in praise of folly]

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‘yet sometimes…

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a rather clever thing came out’ (Utopia - Hythloday describing the fool at Cardinal Morton’s court)

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What Latin word is the fool in Utopia described as and what Greek word does this pun on?

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Morio (Latin for fool); μοριν (Greek for councillor)

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‘I never saw…

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a fool yet that thought himself other than wise!… if a fool perceive himself a fool, that point is no folly but a little spark of wit’ (Dialogue)

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How does Anthony describe himself through the Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation?

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‘old fool’

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‘thieves bring thither…

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their stolen goods and there live thereon’ (Richard III)

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How does the Queen Mother refer to Buckingham’s arguments on sanctuary?

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‘goodly gloss’, ‘a trifling pretext’

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How does the Cardinal interrupt the young lawyer and his incomprehensibly formulaic arguments?

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‘hold your tongue… for you won’t be finished in a few words’ (Utopia)

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‘The public would not…

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be any better off if I bartered my peace of mind for some ruler’s convenience’ (Utopia)

20
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‘There is no place…

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for philosophy in the council of kings’ (Utopia)

21
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‘the difference is only…

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a matter of one syllable’ (Utopia) [Service vs Servitude]

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‘while I try to cure…

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others of madness, I’ll be raving along with them myself’ (Utopia)

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‘scattering our minds… about…

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so many trifling things’ (Dialogue)

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‘Withdraw… [from]…

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all worldly fantasies’ (Dialogue)

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‘Set it in the garden…

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of our soul, all weeds being pulled out’ (Dialogue)

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‘outward teachers…

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suitable for every time’ (Dialogue)

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Thomas More hoped that Utopia would be…

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‘useful and enjoyable’, ‘intended for their [his readers’] advantage’ (Utopia)

28
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How many examples of Litotes is there in Utopia?

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over 140

29
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What structural technique does More use to induce moral contemplation?

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dialogue

30
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Which river in Utopia is strikingly similar to the Thames?

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Anyder

31
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How many cities are there in Utopia (same number as English and Welsh counties)?

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54

32
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Which distinctly metropolitan professions does More ironically mock?

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‘a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker’ (see also his position on Lawyers)

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What was the name of More’s humanist circle of greek enthusiasts?

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Graecistes

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Who were the members of the Graecistes?

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Erasmus, Thomas More, John Colet, Thomas Linacre and others

35
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‘his sailing has been…

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like that… of Plato’ (Utopia)

36
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‘studied Greek more…

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than Latin because his main interest is philosophy’ (Utopia)

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What is the Utopian position on property?

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nothing ‘private or exclusive’

38
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Which marginal gloss connects Utopia to Plato?

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‘smacks of Plato’s community’

39
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‘serpent… that twines…

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itself around the hearts of men’ (Richard III)

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‘that infernal serpent…

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that creeps into the breasts of mortals’ (Utopia)

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‘prides, that plague…

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of human nature, that source of so much misery’ (Utopia)

42
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‘the devil’s arrow…

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of pride’ (Dialogue)

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Which book did Thomas More give lectures on early in his career?

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St Augustine, De Civitate Dei

44
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What event does the later chapters of the Dialogue compare to hell?

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Invasion of Hungary by the Turks (1526)

45
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Where, in the Dialogue, is hell?

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‘toward the centre of the earth’

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What will happen to man’s body on the day of judgement (according to the Dialogue)?

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his body will be ‘driven down deep’

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