dexter void
14-07-09, 13:10
I’ve recently started reading Thomas More’s Utopia.
After getting to grips with the writing I started to envisage the world in which Tomb Raider’s Greek levels are set. Or in our case the remains of what was once a Utopia.
When More describes the buildings it’s exactly the same as what I imagine the Greek levels to be. Maybe it’s my way of relating my thoughts to something that is quite hard to decipher i.e. the text. Or maybe the cover(!)
http://i26.tinypic.com/2name6a.jpg
Maybe it’s the epic structure of these levels as they incorporate obscure Religion and the Gods. For instance in St Francis Folly, Thor and Neptune rooms are incorporated.
We can imagine the Colosseum level once had a lot of violence and bloodshed.
More’s Utopia indeed had slaves but were sometimes treated with additional respect than actual Utopian dwellers due to the fact they were from a ‘foreign’ land and wanted to be part of this ideal setting. Utopians were also punished for adultery and lust etc but there is no mention of blood sports in the book.
Palace Midas for me represents the decadence you could be in. Although Utopians are living in a meaningless harmony, they appreciate all things good and beautiful, they do however hate consumerism. This can contradict with my thesis as Utopians do not regard gold as important. We do turn lead to gold in that level so maybe I’m wrong. But I also view the turning of lead to gold as a gift to almighty God
And with this gold we can enter the Cistern, on our way to the resting place of Tihocan. The Tomb of Tihocan seems to have a very holy essence. This grown up feeling often scares me as it’s so stark.
Anyway, this is my thesis. I’m not saying the makers of Tomb Raider based these levels of Utopia but it struck me how these influenced my imagery when reading this text that was written in 1516!
This probably reads as a bad blog and sorry if it’s not relevant!
I just thought it was quite interesting...:D:o
After getting to grips with the writing I started to envisage the world in which Tomb Raider’s Greek levels are set. Or in our case the remains of what was once a Utopia.
When More describes the buildings it’s exactly the same as what I imagine the Greek levels to be. Maybe it’s my way of relating my thoughts to something that is quite hard to decipher i.e. the text. Or maybe the cover(!)
http://i26.tinypic.com/2name6a.jpg
Maybe it’s the epic structure of these levels as they incorporate obscure Religion and the Gods. For instance in St Francis Folly, Thor and Neptune rooms are incorporated.
We can imagine the Colosseum level once had a lot of violence and bloodshed.
More’s Utopia indeed had slaves but were sometimes treated with additional respect than actual Utopian dwellers due to the fact they were from a ‘foreign’ land and wanted to be part of this ideal setting. Utopians were also punished for adultery and lust etc but there is no mention of blood sports in the book.
Palace Midas for me represents the decadence you could be in. Although Utopians are living in a meaningless harmony, they appreciate all things good and beautiful, they do however hate consumerism. This can contradict with my thesis as Utopians do not regard gold as important. We do turn lead to gold in that level so maybe I’m wrong. But I also view the turning of lead to gold as a gift to almighty God
And with this gold we can enter the Cistern, on our way to the resting place of Tihocan. The Tomb of Tihocan seems to have a very holy essence. This grown up feeling often scares me as it’s so stark.
Anyway, this is my thesis. I’m not saying the makers of Tomb Raider based these levels of Utopia but it struck me how these influenced my imagery when reading this text that was written in 1516!
This probably reads as a bad blog and sorry if it’s not relevant!
I just thought it was quite interesting...:D:o