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Observing Brigadoon Literary Analysis

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Brigadoon is a musical book and lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner. Observing Brigadoon through a utopian lens paints a better picture of the world during the 1940s and gives a great example to the unifying impact love has in utopian literature. Through examining three main utopian concepts, both Brigadoon is proved to be utopian, and love is shown to be the driving utopian connection that draws the play together. Following the story of two young travelers, Brigadoon tells the tale of a small Scottish highland village. This village, as the explorers discover, lays under a spell which allows it to only surfaces once every hundred years. To the villagers, this voyage happens during the night and there is no change of time within the village boundaries.

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