In Thomas MoreÕs book Utopia, there is a great deal of irony in the way
             the people of this mystical place live and prosper. Much of what the people of
             todayÕs society assume to be universal truths of life are completely opposite
             from the Utopian perspective of the way things should be done. Some of these
             differences include the way they protect themselves from other nations, their
             economy, their system of land rights, and the nature of their relationships and
             marriages. In all of these areas Utopians differ greatly from the norm of
             western society. These differences serve as a commentary on the world which
             westerns take for granted. In the book Utopia, More uses irony to demonstrate
             some of the positive and negative aspects of western society.
             In comparison with the ways of the western world where vast amounts of
             the tax money is spent on the protection of the nations in terms of weapons and
             training of armies, the Utopians have a much different system of nation
             protection. Rather than fight themselves, they hire mercenaries to do their
             battling for them. It is a very strange policy to adopt, and history has shown
             that this is not the most effective way to protect a nation. Their stand on the
             issue is that these soldiers are all out for money, and since the gold and
             silver which they possess in vast amounts is available, they have nothing to
             worry about. This is truly an ideal way of life, but the reality is that no
             mercenary will fight as hard as a man who is protection his homeland. Any
             person would agree that paying someone else to go to war for them would be
             great, but this is not the way life works, and More is making this observation
             Another area where the people of Utopia differ greatly form the way of
             the western world is the way in which the land rights are controlled. The basic
             ideas of property ownership are unheard of to the people of Utopia. All of the
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