Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Cultural Exodus: A Cause and Effect Phenomenon In history, through careful observation one can find certain ideas or events that have a cause and effect correlation with each other. In one scenario, someone’s death can set into motion a chain of events that will eventually create a world war; such is the case of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria causing World War I. Or, in another scenario, a life being spared in that world war can eventually lead to another world war; in…

Define and give the significance of the following Key Terms: The Dominion of New England: The Dominion of New England was a coalition of New England colonies in 1686 created by King James II. It originally consisted of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and had its capital in Boston. Later, in 1688, James II added the Jerseys and New York. Individually operated state legislative branches were dissipated, and Sir Edmund Andros took over as the governor of the…

colonies. Jonathan Edwards, a Yale minister, stared this movement. He refused to convert the Church of England and started to notice the lack of interest the people carried for John Calvin’s religious principles. Once he declared, “God was an angry judge, and humans were sinners!” The reverence and conviction he put into his speaking…

dies while giving birth to a baby girl who is the result of her sin. This process can be seen as Cristina reincarnating herself in the baby’s girl’s body and thus, been given a second chance to prove herself worthy of life and to also prove herself to God himself as has given her an opportunity to correct her mistakes and to never make them again. At last, the author also constructs an effect on Vittorio. For instance, “’what did you see when you came down here?’ [Cristina] said finally … ‘I…

and Connecticut) Or known as the New England colonies, these settlements' main goal was more spiritual than the others. People who thought of reformation of the Church of England as incomplete sought to create a place where they could truly worship god. These people were called the Puritans. They believed that America was a way to create new society away from England’s religious ideas. Southern Colonies: (Included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) Unlike the other…

Hooper's congregation wonder if Mr. Hooper, like Jonathan Edwards in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" tries to strike fear in their hearts by suggesting that he is aware of their sins. Obviously, their consciences bother them. That Mr. Hooper wears the veil to symbolize his mourning for the secret sins of many of the Puritans who…

Despite, or perhaps because of, this country’s short history, the American identity is one of the most highly contested and undefinable of intangible ideas. Many of the highly debated abstract concepts are so often and sometimes needlessly argued over because they are indefinable. So much can fall under the categories of these types, like art, love, and poetry, that deems them impossible to narrow down into workable definitions. A blank canvas can be considered art and free verse is somehow…

their affair. i. His affair made him a sinner, “not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct.” ii.…

Hawthorne uses this piece of information to illustrate the long-held Puritanical religious belief that sinning is a principal part of the human condition, which was emphatically described by the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, which is illustrated through the proximity of the prison to the marketplace. In light of the fact that the marketplace was the beating heart of Boston and the prison was the embodiment of sin and unholiness in Puritan ideology, it…

The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was and still is one of the most influential writers of all time. Although Hawthorne is often recognized for his successful novel, The Scarlet Letter, he became noticed for his excellence in short stories. One of the most commonly mentioned is “Young Goodman Brown” published in 1835, fifteen years earlier than The Scarlet Letter. Blending isolation and sin, “Young Goodman Brown” displays a theme of sin and felt the isolation from others after…