A Model Of Christian Charity Summary

Many literary authors throughout history have provided different and distinctive views on the positive and negative effects of human nature on society. In his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity,” John Winthrop expressed that the Godly nature of the new settlers to New England would shape the entire future of America, and he hoped this effect would be a positive one that would lead people to believe in God. In contrast, writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and Catherine Marie Sedgwick, wrote about how the nature of colonialism in America negatively impacted the Native Americans who had inhabited these parts for many years. Authors like Cooper and Sedgwick express similar but at the same time conflicting views on the effects of love and war
Cooper wrote mostly about men and how the white man came and took over the land from the Native Americans by trickery, which makes the Native American men seem unintelligent. Cooper also describes a horrible slaughter by the Native Americans on the white men. This is the opposite of Sedgwick who describes a massacre that white men inflicted upon Native Americans, including innocent children and women, during the Pequod War. While these authors differ in the massacres that they wrote about, the nature of humanity is the same. People have been killing each other since the beginning of time. While war has been a common attribute of human nature, so is the need for love. Cooper describes a love story between a white woman and a Native American man, but in the end, he kills them both. Sedgwick may not have agreed with interracial relationships, which were not acceptable during her time, but in her story, Hope Leslie, she expresses the idea that people should be able to love whomever they choose, even if society deems it inappropriate. What gives society the right to dictate something as uncontrollable as