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A 6 page essay that examines Sarah Scott's utopian novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762). The writer argues that the main problem with utopian fiction is how to make an ideal society interesting to the reader. Scott handles this problem adroitly through the employment of Sir George Ellison, a wealthy merchant traveling for his health, as narrator. The reader is introduced to the community and learns about the lives of its founders with Ellison. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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such a ideal community interesting to the reader. Without conflict, there can be no plot. Sarah Scott in her novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762) handles this problem adroitly
through the employment of Sir George Ellison, a wealthy merchant traveling for his health, as narrator. Ellison happens upon a small utopian community when his coach breaks down. The six
women who run the community welcome him and the reader is introduced to this utopian society through Ellisons perspective as he is shown the various enterprises in which the women
are engaged. A major plot device occurs when Ellison begins to hear the various stories behind each womans involvement in the community. While the society that they have created is
utopian, the past lives of the women provide narratives that brim with conflict, intrigue, and -- most importantly--insight into the patriarchal injustices foisted upon women by the institution of marriage.
These accounts are rather like miniature sentimental novels, which were extremely popular at that time. Each account features a woman in distress, whose virtue has been tried and tested.
Millenium Hall is written in the form of a long letter that Ellison write to a bookseller in London, in which he grants the letters recipient permission to publish the
"letter" as an example to the public of the how virtue can be implemented (Scott 2). Ellison is accompanied on his journey by a foppish young companion, Lamont, who
-- like Ellison-- is transformed by the example of the noble ladies and their philanthropic endeavors. At the end of the novel, Lamont, the former rake is reformed and undergoes
a religious conversion, and Ellison vows to imitated the ladies "on a smaller scale" on his own estate in Jamaica (Scott 207). One of the first features that the
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