A Modern Day Example Of Puritanism

A modern-day example of Puritanism is Taylor Swift's recent top hit, "Look what you made me do" as it contains negative energy and public punishment, which is what Puritanism is about. Nearly of Swift's songs are similar to Jonathan Edward's, "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God," as of the mood and energy.

One of the reasons this particular song is an example of Puritanism because of the negativity. In the music video, the first scene takes place in a graveyard with Taylor as a Zombie crawling out of a grave marked, "Here lies Taylor Swift's Reputation." This means that Taylor is telling us that she is burying her old life and getting rid of all of the hate people have against her. Zombie Taylor then buries the old Taylor. This is similar to Edwards sentence, "Anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of Hell"(Edwards). The purpose of Edwards'
A well-crafted example is in the second scene, which takes place in a marble bathtub with Taylor bathing in ten million dollars' worth of diamonds and pearls. This is a clear sign that she is punishing Kim Kardashian, because of the diamond "robbery" that took Kim “victim” last year. Kim was bound in a bathtub while she was being robbed of all her diamonds. Swift's feud started with Kayne, as he interrupted her well-deserved, first MTV award by jumping up on stage and saying Beyoncé's music video was better than Swifts. Recently Kim decided to get in the middle of it, she put a phone call that was between Swift and Kayne that was clearly edited out on the internet. Swifts lyric, "I don't like your perfect crime, how you laugh when you lie." She is declaring that she doesn't like how Kim's robbery was perfectly set up and how they laugh every time they lie on the internet or on social media. Edwards quote, "Anger is great towards them"(Edwards), is similar to Taylor's lyric because she has a lot of built up anger against them, which she finally let