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- 151: The Scarlet Letter 4
- Throughout time, the power of the people and their laws have differed in many ways. The Puritans are one example. Many people in this time period died because of their "branded sin." In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet Letter, the character Hester Prynne and her child Peral ... that I might endure his agony as wellas mine!" So as you can see she leaves the A on her bosom. Hester was not the only one mistreated by the Puritans. Her child, Pearl, also was a sinner because she had been convinced by her mother (a sinner). She was also called an elf-child. This was a name used by ...
- 152: The Evolution Of British Poetr
- ... love. After that, the Metaphysical contribution grew further from the Elizabethan era by introducing abstract and supernatural though into the poetry. And finally, the last changing contribution was from the puritans. The puritan, a group of people that wanted a stronger moral fiber than those who were in the Protestant church, introduced spirituality and formality to Elizabethan poetry. The change between ...
- 153: The True Witchcraft Trials
- ... falsely accused by their neighbors as a method of revenge, and as an outlet for their maliciousness. When Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and sentenced to death. This is John Proctor s struggle. He ...
- 154: The Crucible - Comparing Play And Movie
- ... judge is added in the movie possibly to show that it was not the entirety of the Church that was unjust, cruel, and nearly ignorant. I wonder how much the Puritans paid the director off for that little extra. The Proctor children were never present in the play. We know of their existence, apparently sleeping upstairs, when Elizabeth is arrested for ...
- 155: Emily Dickinson
- ... life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways ...
- 156: Emily The Fallen Rose
- ... life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways ...
- 157: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... confused spectator on Pierce¡¦s estate. There are hints of warnings to the reader and Oedipa of the addictive nature of their respective searches. ¡§You guys, you¡¦re like the Puritans about the Bible. So hung up with words¡¨ (p. 79). With Oedipa¡¦s inability to separate her play from its author, editor or producer, her search for the original version ...
- 158: Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- ... a new symbolic value such as the fly. The fly symbolizes putrefaction and decay " I see the fly as an agent or emissary of Satan," one author wrote, "the Satan puritans would expect to be present at death of and individual possibly or certainly damned to hell" (Hollahan 6). The first two stanzas and part of the third except for the ...
- 159: Why Hester Is A Whore
- ... values and views quite different than those of Hesters period, but the wrongness of her act of adultery remain universal. Even to this day, with views much lax of those Puritans in question, her wrong remains quite acute. What is right? Right is what people of the time dictate. And even now, adultery is quite wrong. "If the hussy stood up ...
- 160: Emily Dickinson
- ... Redemption. She uses a lot of imagery on baptism and crucifixion. In All hail the power of Jesus name she is telling what Jesus crown of thorns signified to the Puritans. It not only signifies sacrifice of Jesus life for our sins but love and sorrow also (Juhasz 167). Love was another favored subject of Dickinson. She never talks about her ...
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