The Only Use of
utopia
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(utopia) an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal