Puritan

The Puritans who settled and essentially created the North colonies had a belief within their religion that both men and women were spiritually equal, even though I would have to marry a man that I could never love, it would be far better than living in a society…

colonies. One key difference that led to a divide in values and beliefs between the New England and Chesapeake regions was the culture. In the New England colonies, religion was very prevalent. For example, the Massachusetts Bay colony was settled by Puritans, a group of religious separatists who sought to break away from the Church of England in order to practice…

herself as an author, which she does by publishing other works such as this after the Tenth Muse. Another one of her works she wrote in 1678 is titled To My Dear, Loving Husband. This poem is dedicated to her husband and shows that she is a good Puritan. She begins the poem with the line “If ever” and repeats it three times. This is a technique known as anaphora. This sets up the rest of the poem to answer her call. If ever two people were happy and in love, it was Anne Bradstreet and her…

hypocrisy within Puritan society through his writing in order to show how the world, even today, can be unfair to women compared…

Many colonists believed in the concept of Puritan religion, but there were a few who thought differently. Rhode Island allowed religious tolerance, therefore allowing people to express their own ideas of religion. Rhode Island was the only province in New England not to have an established church…

was a descendant of one of Salem's judges who sentenced several "witches" to death making these stories personal for him. Hawthorne was ashamed of his ancestors, and believed Puritanism to be foolish. Hawthorne’s heritage makes him biased against Puritans, but he is using them as an example to show everyone the superficiality that exists in the whole world. Throughout the stories, Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil, Hawthorne uses symbols, characters, and Puritanism to show that…

Imagine you are Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old puritan girl in Salem. Abigail covets John Proctor and being desired in return. Standing in her way, however, is Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife. Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. Through lack of realization that her childish actions will soon lead to Proctor’s death, dramatic irony is utilized. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, there are a myriad of models of irony to accentuate hypocrisy of the witch hunt: the moral contradiction of…

the end of the unrest, that would become known at the Antinomian controversy, John Winthrop, a founder of Puritan Massachusetts, wrote a letter concerning the exiled dissenter Anne Hutchinson. In his first sentence, he coined the term that hundreds of years later would inspire the works of countless historians. “American Jezebel,” has become synonymous with Anne Hutchinson, a woman in Puritan New England who boldly stood up for her religious beliefs in a society where women were expected to be…

Many puritans believed that the new world was a "New Eden" of sorts, a paradise given to them by God. Others believed that although it was a God given land, it came with many obstacles and dangers. The puritans believed this land was good because of writers and poets wrote stories of this paradise, such as Andrew Marvell's Bermudas. A memorable quote from the aforementioned poem is, "He gave us this eternal spring, / Which here enamels everything.” It describes the Island of Bermuda as always in…

Hester seeks contentment but in the 1600’s puritans in the New World believed in a strict religious society, and as a result they “compressed whatever mirth and joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity” (Hawthorne 189). The puritans in The Scarlett Letter concentrate on the status of the community, rather than the individual happiness of a person. Puritans expect exceptional conduct and people who sinned “threatened not only their soul” but most…