Scarlet Letter: What´s A Utopian Society?

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What is a Utopian Society?

First, a Utopian society means “nowhere” an Ideal society or a perfect world. Many people in England and in other countries believed they could have a perfect world. It didn’t come close to an ideal society,in fact, it got a lot worse. Shakespeare believed in a “ perfect society” because he was really open- minded about things. Many people strongly disagrees with this because this caused many problems in the new world. According to “The Scarlet Letter “ by Shakespeare, the first chapter describes how during discovery people thought life in the new world would be utopian. This was very ironic because the first two places built were jail and a cemetery. The point is there are many reasons why people say a utopian

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