Özet:

Since ancient times, human beings have had a desire to reach unknown places in order to get away from the problems and restrictions of the society they have lived in. These unknown places were conceived as places that are not on any map and far from what was seen as a deficiency in the current community life. In literature especially sites, cities, kingdoms, countries, islands and communities have been places of unknown places. Narration of places that do not exist and will never exist are embodied in utopias. Utopias transmit information about the political, social, cultural and religious lives of these communities in the company of a guide and convey the opposite of the current life and criticism of the period lived in. Utopia writers have observed their own periodic problems and revealed the shortcomings in society through their works. The journey of utopia, which started with Plato's work called State, took its place in the history of literature as a concept of "utopia" with Thomas More's Utopia, who had an enlightenment point of view of the Renaissance period, and with Tommaso Campanella's work of The City of the Sun, science was brought together with literature and placed to the center. In this study, the concept of 'utopia' and the symbol of 'sun' will be focused on and the work named The City of the Sun, which constitutes the main body of the study, will be discussed in the axis of the 'sun'. The study will be examined through text-based analysis method and the remarkable 'sun' symbol will be emphasized in the work.

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