The religious ideals of New England society shaped its early history. The Puritans shaped religion‚ social life‚ and government in North America to their ideals. The term puritan means a strictness in morals or religious matters. It’s often applied to cultural traits found in literature and social attitudes‚ with emphasis on education and hard work. The Puritans’ also used the Mayflower Compact for the development of government principles. The Puritans’ belief in government came from the Mayflower
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John Swift The Ideal Puritan Society Puritans thought of themselves as members of the Church of England. Disgusted with the tainted modern religious practices‚ puritans tried to change that institution. They soon became frustrated with the lack of successful reform as English kings James I and Charles I persecuted them. The Puritans migrated to the New World to create a nation according to their own beliefs. The Puritan Society was a very restrictive and socially constrictive one. Massachusetts
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have fit in perfectly in the 1700’s‚ where these two extremes were quite common. The difference between Puritan and Humanist ideals is that Puritans believe in duty and heavy labor for the rewards of Heaven that a fierce and just God could provide‚ while the Humanist believe that performing acts of kindness is simply the nature of the human being‚ while receiving immediate rewards. The Puritans started in the 1600’s‚ when religious folk realized that religion was slowly dwindling in society‚ and ran
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“Puritans Way of Life” The puritans were a very fearful‚ strict and highly religious people. This is explained well in Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible"‚ and in Jonathan Edward’s "Sinners in the Hands of on Angry God". These traits in the society had positive effects and negative. Fearfulness had it’s positive tolls on the society. They feared the worst things to happen to themselves and to the community. By fearing many things they were very well prepared ‚ they took extreme
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Hester’s Ideal Puritan Woman Qualities The standard of an ideal woman has changed dramatically over the centuries. And the differences are certainly apparent when comparing the modern expectations to the Puritan’s. The most important difference being that the standards were much stricter and the idea of an ideal Puritan woman was very prevalent in society. Consequently‚ many readings during the 16th century emphasizes the necessary qualities of an ideal Puritan woman. One of which is Jonathan Edwards’
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settlers claimed the “new” land in the name of God and asserted that they acted in perfect harmony with biblical ideals. With similar intentions‚ John Winthrop and his fellow settlers travelled to Massachusetts Bay to establish a colony based on Puritan ideals. While on the way to the new colony‚ Winthrop delivers a sermon entitled "A Model of Christian Charity" to dictate the ideals his Puritan colony would have to follow to please God. Indeed‚ Winthrop’s sermon suggests that his guidelines should be
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Thesis:The Puritans were a widespread and diverse group of individuals who took a stand for religious purity in the 16th‚ 17th‚ and 18th centuries. They had been strongly against the Catholic Church. As a matter of fact the Puritan colonists believed that English Reformation had not gone far enough and that the Church of England‚ also known as the Anglican church‚ was still tolerating too many practices that were associated with the Church of Rome they wanted greater reforms to do away with all the
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Seventeenth-century sermon techniques in Benjamin Franklin’s "Way to Wealth" communicate his secular eighteenth-century principles. First‚ Franklin’s structure contains a text‚ a doctrine section‚ and an application section as a Puritan sermon would. Franklin addresses a question concerning the financial problems of the day‚ and he takes his text from “Poor Richard’s Almanac.” Based on the issue raised concerning finances‚ Franklin formulates the thesis that the tax commissioners are unable to ease
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Gulliver’s Travel Essay In Gulliver’s Travel‚ by Jonathon Swift‚ the protagonist‚ Gulliver‚ meets and interacts with several different kinds of human-like creatures. These creatures greatly vary in stature‚ some of which are minuscule compared to Gulliver and others that tower over him. While these beings are human-like in appearance and in some of their characteristics‚ they also show animal-like qualities. Yahoos in the land of the Houyhnhnms are a perfect example of the uncivilized nature in
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very anti-Puritan and all for a new way of life. They were all tired of such strict rules and wanted to have more freedom. Americans were starting to realize how awful it was to live during Puritan times and they knew they wanted something else. This anti-Puritanism time was a turning point in American literature and American society. Many people wanted to get away from the Puritan way of life to establish America as it’s own country‚ and not just a replication of England. Their anti-Puritan argument
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