Афанасьева, Михеева, 9. Учебник. Unit 2. Exercise 11.

In the Renaissance period Latin had an advantage over the rest of the languages.

He refused to accept King Henry VIII as the head of the church iff England, didn’t approve the king’s divorce (as the Catholic church doesn’t usually allow it).

In the Russian language the word “utopia” has several meanings:
1) an imaginary place or situation in which everything in society is perfect
2) unrealistic plans
3) a type of books or films about ideal imaginary societies. In English it means “an imaginary place or situation in which everything in society is perfect”.

In the form of a dialogue. Because people express their own ideas they can ask each other questions, argue on certain points and thus get a very complete description of the topic involved.

Division into social classes inequality of rights (ranks), superiority of one person over another which led to envy, hate, selfish ambition and strife, idle classes changing people’s views by compulsion, marriages of convenience existence of tyrants.

Anti-utopia is a book or a film about an imaginary society where an individual doesn’t matter and all the power is in the hands of a group or a person/creature and where people are oppressed. Sample books where anti-utopian societies were described are “We” (by Zamyatin), “1984” (by George Orwell) “The Brave New World” (by Aldous Huxley).