Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences.…
In Pearl S. Buck’s essay, “Indiana”, she gives her theory as to why the people in America love ugly houses and buildings, and hate beautiful things. Her theory answers H.L. Mencken’s question of why people are in love with such ugly buildings. In Buck’s essay, she shows that the lack of connection between generations results in poorly designed architecture. In contrast, Mencken solely focuses on the buildings, not the people’s family structure. Furthermore, “Indiana” and “The Libido for the Ugly” both make discuss the disconnection between the architecture and the people.…
The Puritans are usually depicted as being anti-intellectual, because they have such strong ties to the bible. Their ties to the Bible make them distance themselves from subjects such as science and math. This doesn’t prove them anti-intellectual; in fact, this only proves that they prioritize classes that coincide with the things a new clergyman might need to know. The Puritans really do love to learn, as long as it has to do with the Bible. Therefore it is more true to call the Puritan’s learning style bigoted, rather than it is to call them…
Anne Bradstreet's The Author to Her Book describes the complex attitude of the author - specifically the attitude of an author towards her work. Through use of a controlling metaphor, that of a child, Bradstreet manages to convey all of her feelings towards one of her works.…
John Winthrop was not only a political leader and organizer for the Massachusetts Bay colony, but he was also the leader of forming the idealistic views of the Puritans. Winthrop began his life rich, coming from his families wealth, enjoying his lavish life and the pleasures that came with it. However, while he was under the weather, he realized that indulging in these meager worldly pleasures was not worthwhile in the eyes of the Lord. Furthermore he went on to describe the current state of England as reminiscent of the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities burned to the ground by God’s wrath for its immeasurable amount of iniquities. With this reality check fresh in his mind, Winthrop decided to side with the religion of the Puritans, whose main goal was to achieve the purification of all corruption within the church and its laws. As a Puritan, Winthrop tried multiple times to solve the “puritan dilemma,” or in other words, shape the new church and lay the foundation it stood upon. By doing so, he led by example, living a life constantly influencing either solely or primarily by God and His word.…
Bradstreet shows this love for God above all else when she says, “My hope and treasures lies above”(54). After her house-symbolizing her material life on earth-burnt down, Bradstreet realizes that nothing in this world is greater than that of heaven and that everything she desires in life is in heaven with God.“And to my God my heart did cry” (Bradstreet 8) reveals two very important aspects of Bradstreet’s belief. First, she wakes up, confused, inside of a burning house, but her first thought is to pray to God. This prayer shows how greatly Bradstreet trusts God to help her in her times of need and how often she thinks about God to pray to him in this confusing moment. Second, Bradstreet’s very personal relationship with God is revealed through the words “my God.” By using the word “my,” Bradstreet is showing that she loves God and is as close to him as she is to her husband, who she would refer to as “my husband.” In her poems, Bradstreet reveals that she loves and trusts God, as well as that she has a very close, personal relationship with…
In the article about laws of Plymouth Colony, the Puritans settled from the native England to the US, immigrated to begin with the new world – civilization. In the new world, I believe the role of the leader was the role model of keeping and maintaining simple life and separation from the world for Puritan societies. What it means to be a Puritan, and how its Puritans lived. The article was written between 1632 and 1682 about the laws about Puritans and a way of life from childbearing to local communities. Some of the laws were omitted. According to the date written, these chapters in the bible reflect upon expectations from communities where sometimes expectations were different. These dates also refer to the chapters from documentaries about…
Its best feature: I think this book's best feature is that the author gives so much detail. The reader can learn a lot about many other people even though the book is a biography of John Winthrop.…
“The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop” This book talks about the life of one of the most influential puritans John Winthrop. “The Puritan Dilemma was written by Edmund Morgan. Edmund Morgan was a History professor at Yale University from 1955 to 1986. Edmund Morgan wrote many other popular books such as “Birth of a republic, American slavery, American Freedom” and “Inventing The people, the rise of popular sovereignty in England.” This puritan dilemma was written for the intent of future history students reading and learning about John Winthrop and his influence on modern culture and religion.…
Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences.…
One trait the Puritans greatly valued is faith. Their faith in God was fierce and unrelenting. The Puritans believed God always had a plan for them and never challenged it even if they were unhappy with the results. “ Verses upon the Burning of your House”, is a poem about a woman, Anne Bradstreet, who loses all her goods in life but never her faith. Anne Bradstreet displays her faith in God by saying, “I blest His name that gave and took, / That laid my goods now in the dust. / Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just. /It was his own, it was not mine,”(29). Bradstreet was never angry with what happened because she believed there was a greater power behind it. She may have been sad but never questioned it or God, showing her unrelenting faith in God. Jonathan Edwards, a pastor, also shows his fierce faith in God in his sermon,…
During the Romantics time, people were very anti-Puritan and all for a new way of life. They were all tired of such strict rules and wanted to have more freedom. Americans were starting to realize how awful it was to live during Puritan times and they knew they wanted something else. This anti-Puritanism time was a turning point in American literature and American society. Many people wanted to get away from the Puritan way of life to establish America as it’s own country, and not just a replication of England. Their anti-Puritan argument is a very good way of expressing how they felt and changing the parts of their culture that they didn’t like.…
As of today, many of our ancient mentality as well as values has been based off of a 17th Century group called Puritans, people from New England who were not satisfied with the Church and their power, and decided to leave New England to create a Utopia of their own in America. In some ways, this idea had become successful, in fact, that some of it was imprinted into America’s history.…
[H]e which would have suer peace and joye in Christianitye, must not ayme at a condition retyred from the world and free from temptations, but to knowe that the life which is most exercised with tryalls and temptations is the sweetest, and will prove the safeste. For such tryalls as fall within compasse of our callinges, it is better to arme and withstande them than to avoide and shunne them. -John Winthrop…
People of this Puritan society were expected to live by a strict moral code. Anything that was against the code was labeled as a sin, and people who went against it would be suspected of carrying out the devil’s work. Puritans had strongly believed in self-discipline as well as a strong sense of responsibility and hard work. Moderation was also heavily valued for Puritans; although they drank alcohol, they thought drinking in excess would be punished in the afterlife. Puritans were also extremely insistent about religious learning; for example, during the Sabbath, Puritans were generally found either in Church or at home learning about scripture. While their way of living was strict, the Puritans were very dedicated to having order in their society.…