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vision of utopia THE SCARLET LETTER vs PLEASENTVILLE

s if it never happened.In " Pleasantville," Jen (Mary Sue) is the character that challenges the vision of utopia that the citizens of the town have. Pleasantville's utopia had some similarities to those in "The scarlet Letter." The town was literally perfect, the weather was always the same everyone worked, the mothers cleaned the house and made dinner, just like you would see in a movie. The problem with this perfect world was that it was the same all the time, some things changed in everyday activity but basically it was all the same. Everyone went home the same time every day, they did the exact same thing day after day. Due to the fact that things never changed much the citizens of this town were happy with this and felt very safe and didn't want things to change, who wouldn't want to live in a perfect world. Jen did not want to conform to the rules of the show or what they did, she wanted to enjoy herself and let the people have a little fun, they were capable of it, they just didn't know any better. The reason that people began to change was that they believed in things outside of Pleasantville and wanted to experience new and exciting things. The people that were very happy with the utopia and didn't want anything to change automatically attacked those that were different and tried to make they abandon their beliefs. Their plan did not work and the "colored" people did not give up, they were determined to keep their newfound freedom and stay the way they were. Eventually everyone in the town changed and there was now something outside of Pleasantville. Almost everyone was happy with the change because it gave them freedom, if you do the same things day after day it gets tiring inside, you may not show wit but you get bored it's also as if you are enslaved, but now they were free.In conclusion I believe that there was something in both stories that challenged the Utopia and they do did change it somehow. In "Pleasantville" I thin...

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