Puritan Essay Test
“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth.” (Hawthorne). In the works, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible humans are inherently evil from birth. God is the only salvation for the chosen who repent for their original sin. The three stories have this theological common theme along with the hypocrisy of others due to this belief.
One thematic connection between Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible is the presence of a theological way of thinking. All the pieces of literature …show more content…
In, The Scarlet Letter “What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him,—yea, compel him, as it were—to add hypocrisy to sin? Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without. Take heed how thou deniest to him—who, perchance, hath not the courage to grasp it for himself—the bitter, but wholesome, cup that is now presented to thy lips!” (Hawthorne 65). This quote demonstrates that Dimmesdale judges Hester for her sins even while he is actually Pearl’s father. He does this because he is an important member of the church so he is less judged and therefore thought by others to be closer to God. Hypocrisy is present in The Crucible when the judges convicted the so called “witches”. The judges condemn anyone who could not recite their ten commandments even when many people in the village probably could not recite all ten. Hypocrisy of the church is also present in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God when Edwards preaches about those who maintain a form of religion and are moral and strict life. “However you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.” (Edwards 1) Here
“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth.” (Hawthorne). In the works, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible humans are inherently evil from birth. God is the only salvation for the chosen who repent for their original sin. The three stories have this theological common theme along with the hypocrisy of others due to this belief.
One thematic connection between Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible is the presence of a theological way of thinking. All the pieces of literature …show more content…
In, The Scarlet Letter “What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him,—yea, compel him, as it were—to add hypocrisy to sin? Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without. Take heed how thou deniest to him—who, perchance, hath not the courage to grasp it for himself—the bitter, but wholesome, cup that is now presented to thy lips!” (Hawthorne 65). This quote demonstrates that Dimmesdale judges Hester for her sins even while he is actually Pearl’s father. He does this because he is an important member of the church so he is less judged and therefore thought by others to be closer to God. Hypocrisy is present in The Crucible when the judges convicted the so called “witches”. The judges condemn anyone who could not recite their ten commandments even when many people in the village probably could not recite all ten. Hypocrisy of the church is also present in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God when Edwards preaches about those who maintain a form of religion and are moral and strict life. “However you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.” (Edwards 1) Here