Millennium Hall

I found reading Millennium Hall a nice change from all the poetry we have covered so far in the course.  I love poetry, but reading a long form story with lots of characters was good.  It is interesting that while we are following women’s writing through this course we also get to follow the greater literary trends.

I liked the view of her utopia as it seemed very representative of Sarah Scott as a person.  Very structured and focused on the arts.  I don’t think it would be a world that worked for everyone, especially because of the focus on religion and how everything was structured on a pretty strict schedule, but it really feels like Scott was putting the world that she wanted into this book.

The fact that the narrator is a man stood out to me.  Scott could have made this a story about a woman finding a utopia filled with other women, instead, it is a man.  Since we follow a gentleman that finds Millennium Hall he, and by extension us as readers, are held at arms length from the wonder of the female dominated utopia.  We can learn about their lives, but we cannot follow them.