Puritan aspiration and fulfillment

New England Puritans’ Aspirations and Fulfillment 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. When the Puritans left from New England to America, their idea of a society was an utopia for people who wanted freedom from the Church in England since they believed that the Church was corrupted and that they were persecuting Puritans so many travelled to America to create a better society.. When they reached America, the Puritans try to enforce religion, as well as their political aspirations and education. One of the ways was to enforce “visible saints,” which were people of the church who strived for a "covenant of grace" through hard work and moderation so that they could receive a sign from God that they were to be saved and that they won’t go to hell. For their political aspirations, they believed that the use for the government was to reinforce God’s Laws, which were the 10 Commandments, as well as to ensure religious doctrine. The government was also used to control them as well as to enforce obedience. They also believed that the community was far more significant that an individual. In this time, the Puritans believed that they should all stick together rather than be spread apart. One of the most important part of their society, as well as the most recognized part of the Puritan’s aspirations was their strive for education since reading and writing enabled them to read the Scriptures. In result of this, this educational fervor led to the founding of the first American college, Harvard, in 1636. All in all, the main aspirations of the Puritan’s idea of a Utopia, or model society, was to focus mainly on God’s Law, to educate many people to read the Scripture, to be able to not be controlled by a power-hungry church, and to ensure religious doctrine. To an extent, some of these aspirations are still found here today where the Puritans left their mark in today’s society which is their determination for an excellent education, as well as their strive for hard-working democratic individualism.