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- 81: Crucible 3
- ... Puritan justice system, much has been improved. In 1692, in the town of Salem, many people lose their lives or are punished unfairly due to their justice system. Justice to Puritans really is not justice at all; it is a quick fix to a complicated problem. In Arthur Miller s The Crucible, the Puritan justice system is poorly illustrated due to ... At this time, the ways of the Puritan justice system are completely acceptable, whereas public hangings and executions do not seem out of the ordinary. When Arthur Miller writes: they [Puritans] carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem ... ideas They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world He is remarking about the way of life and beliefs of Puritans. He says they will not let their new world be polluted with sin and crime, and the world will imitate their actions, depending on the way their society is ...
- 82: The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What a Change!
- The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What a Change! The Puritans came from England in the sixteen hundreds to break free from the laws and regulations made by the king of England. In the new world, they were able to practice their own form of religion. The Puritans believed in God and His laws. "A Young Puritan's Code" was "Being sensible, that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him ... they probably obeyed it out of fear for their life. For sinners are in the hands of a angry God. Many years later Nathaniel Hawthorn was greatly interested by the Puritans. This 19th-century American novelist, was born on July 4, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died May 11, 1864. He was the first American writer to apply artistic judgment to ...
- 83: Symbolism In Young Goodman Bro
- ... of society. Puritan justification was a topic Hawthorne was aware of as a journey to hell necessary for a moral man. Having referred to the heart of man as hell, Puritans founds themselves in the midst of Satan and his multitude of devils as he established his kingdom in man s heart. This was a dreadful revelation that caused Brown to ... wilderness around them. Set in Salem during the early witchcraft day of then, Young Goodman Brown s experience in the dark, evil forest correlated and would have been recognized by Puritans as a symbol of mistrust of their own corrupt hearts and faculties. Just as man could not trust the shadows and figures he saw hidden in the forest, he could ... The modern day person has taken this work ethic and given it a greedy twist. People of today fight for position, status or power just as much as the pioneer puritans worshipped and studied the bible. Hawthorne uses symbolism and irony to illustrate the theme of man not knowing that sin is and unavoidable part of human nature. The idea ...
- 84: The Scarlet Letter 3
- ... actions and her punishment was to bear the infamous scarlet letter. She wears this scarlet letter A to signify that she is an adulteress and an outcast to society. The Puritans of Boston eschew and mock Hester because of her crime and the scarlet letter she bears. The Puritans illustrate this when they force her to stand upon the scaffold with her scarlet letter for long periods of time. Dimmesdale, of Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, also suffered ... through the execution process. Where the Americans of the 1600s forced Hester Prynne to withstand public humiliation and Arthur Dimmesdale inflicted self-punishment (he would have been killed had the Puritans discovered his crime) because of their adulterations, the Americans of 1998 do not even frown upon President Bill Clinton for his adulteration.
- 85: Salem Witch Trials
- ... pondered on what kind of an illness could have been mistaken for the symptoms of possession, but some thought that the possessed were simply liars and fools. Many times, the Puritans were blamed for the trials, encouraging witchcraft fears, and the number of people affected by them. Some people believe that the Puritans blamed anyone who was different as being a witch. This was because the Puritans had always suspected, as one of their main beliefs, that the Devil envied their way of life and was constantly trying his best to make their lives miserable. Their ...
- 86: The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
- ... light and dark imagery. An interaction between light and dark imagery is also shown briefly in the beginning of the novel. When Hester is returning to the prison cell, the Puritans comment on how her "scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage way of the interior" (Hawthorne 65). An interaction is shown because even though there are opposing forces in one situation, they are shown together, equally. Similarly, Pearl is another example of this interaction. In the town, Dimmesdale is portrayed as being pure and holy. The Puritans believe Dimmesdale possesses a "dawning light" (Hawthorne 111). Hester, on the other hand, is portrayed as being sinful. One woman says, "this woman has brought shame upon us all" (Hawthorne ... interaction between the opposing forces is shown. ________________ refers to Pearl as "the offspring of Arthur and Hester's unlawful union" (___). The union here represents the dark and light interaction. The Puritans do not realize this until they beheld the minister, leaning on Hester's shoulder and supported by her arm around him, approach the scaffold, and ascend its steps; while ...
- 87: The Scarlet Letter 2
- ... colonist s lifestyles. It describes their strict religion and intolerance for those who did not abide by it. The main area of description is the Puritan view on adultery. The Puritans were an extremely religious people with even their name implying that they were pure. The bible was their guide for life, as they were often called people of the book ... Puritan society were ruled by morality. The Puritan world view was a society with high moral standards such as honesty, sobriety, responsibility, and hard work. To get to heaven, the Puritans felt one must understand God. One should choose to live a life the way God intended you to. Adultery was considered one of the worst possible crimes that one could commit, under the seventh commandment. The Puritans often imprisoned, whipped, or executed those who went against the word of the bible. Some people, such as Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Hooker were banished from their homes forever. ...
- 88: Early America
- ... most famous literary monuments to the "great Awakenings" The first book published in America was the Bay Psalm Book; it was a translation of the biblical psalms. Many of the puritans kept journals to help they with their relationship with god. The journals and diaries were usually meant to be private. But somehow they got out to the public. Even when it did get out to the public the puritans said that none of it had ever happened. They did not write to entertain the public they wrote for themselves, and for God. They wrote no fiction, and they didn ... wrote about politics and put some excitement into how they wrote. William Byrd was a between the world being more widely and witty southerners and really didn't like the puritans.
- 89: The Scarlet Letter -x
- ... book and The Scarlet Letter became a full novel. In addition to financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hawthorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general. Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment ...
- 90: The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
- ... secrecy that is the mainspring of the novel's plot; a secrecy that Hester must maintain in order to protect both her and her husband from the harshness of the Puritans. Hawthorne's emphasis on the ability of Chillingworth to analyze the human mind and reasoning foreshadows his treatment of Dimmesdale later in the novel. Hawthorne shows that while Hester realizes ... badge of shame that looks more life a sign of defiance, thrown in the magistrate's teeth; a sign by Hawthorne signify Hester's feeling towards the laws of the Puritans that she feels are insignificant. Throughout the novel as Hester demonstrates her defiance to the citizens of Boston and the laws she is subjected to, an awareness of sin and ... rule. Hawthorne carefully tracks Hester's plight through and emotional roller coaster of ups and downs. He shows several stages of her actions and how they were accepted by the Puritans. The author's main goal in this novel is to show that no matter what we are faced with and no matter how badly we are criticized for it, ...
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