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By Graeme Mullen - February 11, 2002

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"sometimes a word is put down with a sign of negation, when as much is signified as if we had spoken it affirmatively, if not more" John Smith (225)

Thomas More's Utopia is a work that embodies and embraces ambiguity. In fact almost every aspect of the book is instilled with a range of interpretable and unclear meaning, from the intricacies of its…

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