home and abroad. He lived in 19th century when Puritanism was still prevailing. And his family members were strict followers of Puritanism‚ who did lots of extreme misdeeds. This kind of family background had influenced Hawthorne a lot. These two factors both contributed to Hawthorne’s writing style and themes. He believed that man was born with sin‚ and mankind was basically depraved. The doctrines of Calvinism have overlapped meanings with Puritanism‚ such as the concept of the original sin‚ atonement
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voice and wants people to hear it by saying things like‚ "Men can do best‚ and women know it well / Pre-eminence in all and each is yours / yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours" (40-42). She wants for women to be accepted as intelligent and opinionated people as well. Thematically‚ Anne Bradstreet wrote about many different topics that are both extensive and varied. She wrote about things like culture‚ nature‚ religion‚ family‚ death and history (Cowell‚ 2008). There are reasons why Anne
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word ‘purify’ and Puritanism is described as a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic ‘popery’. From this description‚ it is certain that Puritans are in search of pure Christianity and they try to be good Christians. On the grounds that Puritans take significant place in those years’ America‚ I would like to take the Puritanism as the starting point of my discussion. Puritanism has key role in
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writer of American literature in 19th century‚ was influenced by Puritanism. He was haunted by his sense of evil and sin in his whole life. In his works‚ he saw the cruel ruling of Puritanism through his puritan view and showed his dissatisfaction towards it. To analyze through symbolism in his famous work of "The Scarlet Letter"‚ we can see the important theme of Original sin and the redemption of humanity. Key words: Puritanism‚ original sin‚ redemption 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life: 1.1
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Shinong(Sharon) Cai Student number: 387348 Topic:In no more then 500 words‚ write a short account‚ description‚ or discussion of Max Webber‚ “ Confucianism and Puritanism‚” In Chapter eight of “The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism‚” Max Webber makes a comparison of the eastern philosophy of Confucianism with the western religion of Puritanism. He makes the connection between the how Confucianism has shaped China historically from an individuals personal goals to its economic and commercial conditions
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Anne Bradstreet was a woman during the Puritan era that made a huge impact on women regarding love and feminism within puritanism. In her poem‚ “A Letter to Her Husband” Bradstreet incorporated her true feelings and addresses to readers that her love for her husband is unconditional and that the synopsis of this poem is the love that she has for her husband. “My head‚ my heart‚ mine eyes‚ my life‚ nay‚ more”. To Bradstreet‚ her husband’s love is worth more than materialistic items or anything else
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being different not only occur in individuals‚ but also in societies. The language chosen in this essay is intended to be for one with some prior knowledge of the context and setting that the Crucible was written in‚ including the parallels of Puritanism and McCarthyism that Arthur Miller has drawn from. The formality of the writing also expects the reader to be well literate as to be able to discuss and explore some of the more complex issues surrounding the Salem witch hunts. To retain both the
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continue his journey. "Puritanism‚ movement arising within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century that sought to purify or reform‚ that church and establish a middle course between Roman Catholicism and the ideas of the Protestant reformers" (Puritanism 1). The term Puritanism was referred to as an insult that was attached by traditional Anglicans who wished to purify the Church of England. The Encarta Online Encyclopedia states that the term Puritanism has often been used as
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to the acceptance of Hester Prynne‚ portraying the decline of American puritanism. Puritan society neglects the adulteress Hester in the beginning of the novel‚ but in turn the author Hawthorne who lived in the era of American romanticism illustrates her to be a society changing attribution. The Scarlet Letter displays Hester as a bold‚ and relentless character whose ideal representation of the shift away from American puritanism. In the beginning of the novel Hawthorne’s
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Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is written based on the Puritanic lifestyles in the 1640’s and depicts the consequences of two people who had committed adultery in that time period. However‚ Hawthorne was writing two or three generations after this era of Puritanism; this means that there could easily be historical errors in the portrayal of the justice system and modes of punishment. Hawthorne’s family background helps readers to understand how he is familiar with this time period; his forefathers were magistrate
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