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- 231: The Crucible: John Proctor and John Hale - Good Citizen vs. Good Person
- ... he believed “a Christian on Sabbath Day must be in Church!” (p. 51) . He is an expert in the field witchcraft, therefore believing in the existence of witches, as the Puritans did, and says that “we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face” (p. 39 ...
- 232: The Crucible: It's Easy To Blame Anyone
- ... the Doctrine of the Elect. They accept that certain people are predestined by God to be saved and that the devil selects certain individuals to be bewitched. Another belief the Puritans acknowledge is theocracy. They have faith that God is the head of the state and he has representatives acting as religious authorities. The religious authorities, reverends, rule the state. The ...
- 233: The Scarlet Letter Notes By Ch
- ... he wanted to break free of the tradition. He compares people to plants in that if you do not transplant, future crops will be ruined. He descries his forefathers as Puritans. They would not approve of his lifestyle as a writer because it is to unproductive. He then describes his return to Salem and his new job at the Custom House ...
- 234: True Sinners
- ... of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Sin strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale, and turns Chillingworth into the villain. Hester Prynne's sin was adultery. This sin was regarded very seriously by the Puritans, and was often punished by death. Hester's punishment was to endure a public shaming on a scaffold for three hours and wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest ...
- 235: Roger Williams
- ... teacher and, after a stay at Plymouth, minister of the Salem church. However, his radical religious beliefs and political theories-he denied the validity of the Massachusetts charter, challenged the Puritans to acknowledge they had separated from the Church of England, and declared that civil magistrates had no power over matters of conscience-alarmed the Puritan oligarchy, and the General Court ...
- 236: The Crucible: Theme of Mass Hysteria
- ... is not hard to see how many could have been led to believe that the time of confusion had been brought upon them by deep and darkling forces" (1036). The Puritans believe that all evil and disorder is linked to the Devil. At the trial, even people as wise as Reverend Hale are confused as to what is the truth and ...
- 237: Arthur, Tragic Hero Or Merely
- ... Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself all the while...It was his custom, too, as it had been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast,--not, however, like them, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination,--but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him ...
- 238: Critical Analysis Of Young Goo
- ... and actions of people as a whole. Levin says that Hawthorne s way of writing Young Goodman Brown gives a clear interpretation of the meaning. Neglecting the fact that the Puritans whipped Quakers and burned Indian villages, the reader can then notice what Brown actually sees in the forest. The story is not about the evil of other people but about ...
- 239: Good And Evil In The Crucible
- ... something to blame the supernatural on. The condemning of Tituba was mainly due to this. When Tituba took the girls into the woods, and they performed their ceremony, something the Puritans were not accustom to, she convicted of witchery. Along with Tituba, Martha Corey was indicted solely because she would not allow Giles to read them. Giles also stated that I ...
- 240: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Theme of Nature In His Works
- ... was the first of his fathers side of the family to not become a Unitarian minister like his father, or his clergyman ancestors dating back to the time of the Puritans. In my opinion, and many others opinions, made him a non-conformist which he called, “Selfism”. Emerson’s first book, Nature (1936), is perhaps the best expression of his Transcendentalism ...
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