The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 1- The Prison-Door

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized 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.

When Creating Society and Community in a New Land, Founders Had to First Set Aside Space for a Cemetery and a Prison- Death and Crime are the Harsh Realities of Society

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Answer the following question in the response box below, or write it by hand on a sheet for submission: Why is life NOT a utopia?

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Hawthorne says that the uncultivated land is not realistically a utopia because the society that forms in the region will inevitably experience death and crime. These are parts of any community.

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