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Essay Archive - Pleasantville and The Scarlet Letter
Pleasantville and The Scarlet Letter
The movie Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, and the novel, The Scarlet
Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both were stories focused on outcasts in
society. Though they were written generations apart, they share similar
illusions of society, and judgments or actions from society.
Both societies had their strict visions of a Utopia. Pleasantville was a
society based on a classic, but unrealistic, 1950’s television show, where
everything is perfect, and every day is the same. It was their perfect and
pleasant utopia. The Scarlet Letter’s Utopia fo....
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