Then, the go-between/intermediary notion of utopia in terms of benefiting from the past events will be analysed, along with examining historical problems with the recommendations and reformative solutions for the future given in these utopias. The aim of this paper is, first, to place a particular emphasis on the backgrounds of the primary representative utopias by Plato and More and to reveal distinctive instances about the connections between utopian proposals and historical facts. For that reason, history is perceived as the ‘other’ of utopia which could potentially create positively different experiences in the future of the society in question. It is a common understanding that history is concerned with the past and utopia is concerned with the future. At that point, the relationship between the concepts of history and utopia needs to be examined because these two concepts are mostly accepted as opposite notions. The imagined lands portrayed by Plato and More focus on the political turmoil and social upheaval of their eras thus, the authors’ attempt to refine and re-shape the systems and institutions in their real lands by means of idealised conditions which are fundamentally shaped by justice and philosophy. The characteristics of these fictive narratives essentially refer to the historical realities of both the Athenian society and the English one. 380 BC) by Plato focusing on the nature of justice mirrors Athens in the first quarter of the fourth century BC, "Utopia" (1516) by Sir Thomas More meditating on the nature of politics projects England in the early sixteenth century. While one of the first examples of the utopia genre, "The Republic" (c. Utopias stem from the hope for better circumstances to live in and to provide alternative lands replacing discontent conditions of their related eras.
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