Differences Between Hawthorne And Jonathan Edwards

Puritans were members of the religious and social movement. Jonathan Edwards, although he was not part of the Puritan movement, was a preacher and protester who used the Puritan style of speaking to express his beliefs to others. Nathaniel Hawthorne, also not part of the Puritan movement, was a novelist in the early 1800s who did not adopt the Puritan expression of writing. Hawthorne was against this way of writing, because he was embarrassed by his ancestors, who were Puritans, were part of the Salem witch trials. While Hawthorne’s style may be characterized as emphatical and fluent Jonathan Edwards more effectively shapes the reader’s understanding of Puritan ideals of religion by appealing to the readers insight of their virtues by using