Puritanism

The Humble Poets: Anne Bradstreet and William Cullen Bryant From the settling of America to its Civil War, literature changed rapidly and gave future readers an idea of the struggles throughout that time period. Poets, in particular, were excellent at capturing the emotional tone of the time and discovering new meanings around and within themselves. Anne Bradstreet—a Puritan poet that came to America with John Winthrop—and William Cullen Bryant—a Romantic poet writing in post-Revolutionary…

John Steinbeck and The American Voice The American voice is the legacy of literature that has influenced how American authors write today. The unique writing style and display of American culture emerged after political, social, and economic issues occurred causing many authors to turn to writing in response to these hardships. Novelists and poets such as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck all have added to what we know today as the American voice. John Steinbeck…

Benjamin Franklin, mostly known by millenniums as the face on the one hundred dollar bill. Ben Franklin was one of the founding fathers of The United States of America. Among other attributes, he was a well respected Diplomat, a curious being at heart, who was also a scientist and an inventor. He was vocal and argued against slavery, making him one of the first abolitionists. Despite the fact that he only had a few years of formal education, Ben Franklin lived in London for several years and…

Jonathan Edwards was a Congregational minister whose education was influenced both by the open-mindedness of the Enlightenment and the strict Calvinist theology of Puritanism. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was a typical sermon of the Great Awakening, which was a movement that emphasized the positive and negative images of God’s power. A huge point of the Great Awakening was the belief that hell was a real place…

Parliamentarians, considered the roundheads, in which supported the interests of Parliaments. English Parliament was primarily supported by the people of the southern and eastern regions of England. The Parliamentarians were committed to the Church of England, Puritanism and fought for democracy (Rickard, 2000). In opposition, were the Royalist, termed the Cavaliers, who supported their conservative monarch, King Charles I. The Cavalier movement was contrived primarily of individuals from the…

Puritanism was the center of seventeenth-century New England, which made society’s entire beliefs about life and their actions based upon Puritan beliefs. Therefore, the individuals from both novels are accused of breaking Puritanical laws; in one novel Hester…

Mutability and Permanance: An Analytical Exploration of Epigrams 4-6 in Spenser’s Translations of Theatre for Worldlings Reading literature by Edmund Spenser requires a keen eye and a willingness to investigate beyond the text. You are not simply able to read Spenser and somehow acquire what each line means as a first-time reader of his works. Reading Spenser peaks ones’ interest to explore common themes, similarities, imagery, and the allusions which bring forward the meaning behind the text.…

John Proctor is a man of strict morals and is held in high regard by the community, but even he commits adultery, and yet he works to move past his shame rather than dwell on it. To begin, Proctor’s sin and shame becomes quickly apparent, as Arthur Miller includes it in his own analysis of the character. As each new character is introduced in the play, Miller takes time to write his own thoughts and feelings on the characters, and often times this gives the reader insight on what the character…

Modern Shit The History of Shit by Dominique Laporte explores the function of waste throughout history as it plays roles in the development of language, technological development, and government laws. Correspondingly, the silent film Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, explores the consequences of the growth and use of new technologies in the industrial sphere and critiques the effect that it has on communication. Both texts reference industrialization as Chaplin analyzes the hierarchical…

Study Guide Ch1 Questions Questions 1. European exploration of the New World was a benefit to the development of world civilization due to the long term positive effect it had on morals and humans. The exploration caused a huge decrease in Native American population due to diseases and harsh treatment. Eventually, the settlers switched to using African “servitude” where African eventually became defined as property. Even though the overall economy of the European grew, it came at a cost of…