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which the main character, Ethan Frome, discovered that social ideals and expectations can contradict with one’s yearnings. Ethan Frome went through an emotional voyage over rough seas from the beginning to the end. Frome, a married man in Starkfield, a town in Massachusetts, was anchored down by his wife’s disability. Over the years, Ethan could not fulfill his own ambitions, for he was tied down by various family member’s needs. “Somebody had to stay and care for the folks. There warn’t anybody…

In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan is shown to have many internal and external problems. This brings the question, “What is the primary cause for these problems?” into the readers mind. Many readers would say it is Zeena and her illness always bringing Ethan down. Some people say it is Maddie leading him on to get with her. The real source of all of Ethan’s problems is where he lives, Starkfield. Starkfield has basically ruined Ethan’s chance of true happiness from the beginning by holding…

Cornelia Hughes Dayton utilizes, as Hemphill does, a primarily legal based methodology in her article “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth Century New England Village. Examining a variety of depositions and legal documents surrounding a fornication trial in Pomfret, Connecticut, Dayton argues two major fundamental shifts occurred by the 1740s which highlighted how different their society was from that of the Puritan dominated seventeenth century. First, there was a…

But through religion these were taught and many bible stories were included in this book including the lords prayer and other basic Christian traditions. After the New England Primer, was Noah Webster’s Speller which was a book meant to teach children how to read it is like the New England primer but different. Next were McGuffey’s readers a series of books, meant to help children to read and learn the word of God. These books read more like a novel and used fun ways to teach…

designed to contribute to the existing historical scholarship. In this regard, I am quite annoyed with William Cronon, who wrote Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England during his time as a master’s student at Yale University. The book not only contributed to the history of colonial New England by casting the environment as…

Plymouth, a Colony to be Remembered In the 1600’s, England was settling in what is now known as North America. They came for political and economical reasons with the intent to colonize. England had two settlements in the New World, Plymouth and Jamestown, that were particularly successful in their own ways. But, overall, which one was more successful? If success means achieving the goal they had set before them, than Plymouth was the more successful colony because of the choice of settlers who…

misconstrued as the Pilgrims known for beginning the holiday of Thanksgiving because similar to the Pilgrims, the Puritans were Protestants from England and Calvinists believed that the reforms and decisions of the Church of England did not do enough (“People & Ideas: The Puritans”). However, unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans did not break away from the Church of England, but wanted to reform it (“People & Ideas: The Puritans”). In their efforts for reformation, however, this religious group was…

New England’s land was covered with thick forests. While this made it difficult to farm, it provided the colonists with timber for building houses, ships, and tools. The natives taught the colonists how to hunt and trap the forest animals. The New England colonies suffered from a harsh climate. Colonists endured cold winters and mild summers. In addition to the thick forest, land became hilly and mountainous farther inland. The soil in New England was thin and rocky. Colonists used the rocks…

America was that the people and things they encountered affected the English language. In the 17th century the English language developed and changed as a result of “coming to America”. The Pilgrim Fathers landed in November 1620 at Plymouth Rock in New England (Bragg 145). The people on the Mayflower were religious separatists with a powerful supporting belief in the word of God. The Pilgrim Fathers had “bound themselves by an oath, the…

The different regions were the New England and the Southern colonies. Both the New England and Southern colonies relied on growing to survive, but their main exports differed with New England focused more on lumber and fishing while the Southern colonies focused on tobacco, although their main exports differed due to labor the effect of labor on their culture was the same. In the beginning, even before there were official colonies like Virginia,…