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- 101: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... and The Scarlet Letter became a full novel (XVI). In addition to financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hathorne his great grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials (Hawthorne "Biographical Note" VII). Hawthorne did not condone their acts, and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general (VII). Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal soapbox for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict in punishment and callous in feeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is scorned by a group of women who feel Hester deserves a ...
- 102: Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
- ... great revelation occurred there. The second setting is the forest just outside of the town. It proves to be a kind of dramatic foil to the idealistic Puritan society. The Puritans maintain a community that thrives on purity and lack of sin. The forest, on the other hand, is a symbol of lawlessness and desecration. It is shrouded in mystery and retains a dark and foreboding air. The Puritans abhor the forest because it stands as a perfect example of evil. However, the witches that live in the town view it very differently. They appreciate the anonymity the forest ...
- 103: Comparison Of The Scarlet Lett
- ... His lack of peace from hiding from the scaffold, from truth, was his undoing. As Dimmesdale found out at the very end of his life, the scaffold was every guilty Puritans only way of redemption. Chillingworth himself said, "Hast thou sought the whole earth over . . . there was no place so secret, no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have ... be open and free. Here was the only place where Hester and Dimmesdale can meet and talk freely of the sin they shared seven years previously. In this respect the Puritans were accurate in their superstition of the Black Man living in the forest. There was indeed in the forest a place where free thinking could go unfettered by Puritan code ...
- 104: Strange Explanations
- ... different forms of explanations for things that have happened. Some of these are pretty sensible, while others are completely off the wall. Strange explanations are used for many things, the Puritans chose to explain the strange behavior of young girls in the community by saying witches had possessed them. In today's time we still use strange explanations, this can be ... from burning (71). In the end, the only thing the Puritan's succeeded in explaining was how sensible people can be gullible enough to believe such radical ideas. While the Puritans chose to say witchcraft was the reason for such an ordinary occurrence, some people today choose to use alien abduction as another. These people say that ordinary things like a ...
- 105: Mercantilism Helped To Shape The American Nation
- ... s major export to many countries all over the world. Another colony, financed by the Massachusetts Bay Company, was established in 1620. This colony was begun by a group of Puritans under the leadership of John Winthrop. The Puritans, also called the Pilgrims, established a colony on the Massachusetts Bay. They shipped lumber, built and outfitted ships, and carried on a good amount of foreign trade. There were eleven ...
- 106: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... in Europe, then, the schools in the colonies were strongly influenced by religion. This was particularly true of the schools in the New England area, which had been settled by Puritans and other English religious dissenters. Like the Protestants of the Reformation, who established vernacular elementary schools in Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make education universal. They took the first steps toward government-supported universal education in the colonies. In 1642, Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child be ...
- 107: Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
- ... it was easier and more relatable to make her African. Also, voodoo is stereotypically seen as the workings of "black" magic and therefore, could be easier linked to what the Puritans would view as witchcraft. Since voodoo is of African decent, Tituba was made African herself. Voodoo could be easily portrayed as a witch-like practice; whereas it might have been ... been suspicious in it’s own right. For what reason would Parris be in the woods at night to begin with unless he himself was doing something mischievous? Besides that, Puritans were afraid of "devils" in the woods and the thought that he would have been venturing by himself is unlikely, especially after sunset. In The Crucible, Tituba readily confesses to ...
- 108: American Colonies
- ... had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. During the mid-1600's England was a Christian dominated nation; the colonies, however, were mainly Puritans. When Sir Edmond Andros took over a Puritan church in Boston for Anglican worship, the Puritans believed this was done to break their power and authority. The Puritan church in New England was almost entirely separated from the state, except that they taxed the residents for ...
- 109: Salem Witch Trials
- ... would entertain themselves by listening to stories told by Tituba, their slave (National Geographic). January of 1692 is when the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials first began. The Puritans of this time were very harsh, unyielding, and quick to judge. They condemned innocent women on the basis of intangible evidence, confessions, and such things as "witchmarks" (Hill). As Dorcas ... even let free, but because of protest from victims, they were forced to be arrested for a second time. That was the case for Mary Easty (Salem Home Page). The Puritans of Massachusetts were the first to enforce a sense of political correctness. There were led by God, ran inquisitions, and created the "witch-hunt" of Salem. The Salem witch trials ...
- 110: New England And The Chesapeake
- ... their goal was to form "a city upon a hill", which represented a "pure" community, where Christianity would be pursued in the most correct manner. Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans were very religious people. In both cases, the local government was controlled by the same people who controlled the church, and the bible was the basis for all laws and ... immigrants were mostly young people, most of them men, and like it is stated in the same list they were all conformists of the Church of England, and unlike the Puritans, were not discriminated against back in England. As John Smith points out, many attempted to go back when they found difficulties instead of opportunities to get rich. Many others died ...
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