The Portrayal Of The Puritan Society
The portrayal of the Puritan society is negative. The Puritans had different beliefs of society, religion, and the family structure. They believed men were the head of the house and made all the important decisions. They felt the women were just there to take care of the housework and kids. The family structure they had kept everyone on the right path with God and any lechery or any kind of sexual sin was punished severely. Some women found guilty for any kind of crime, in extreme cases were put to death. Men were given had a less critical punishment, as all the blame was only to women. The Puritans had “a steady succession of trials and convictions for sexual offenses involving single persons. Fornication, to be exact, was a familiar
problem.” - John Demos. The punishment for those situations was a fine of ten pounds or get whipped publicly in front of everyone, which is pillorying, for both who were involved. The Puritans were very pious but also very violent. Sometimes the punishment were the cutting off of the head, being hung, a body part chopped off, or burned at the post. The Puritans banned people you from their town if they even thought you were involved in anything ungodly, cut your ears off, and even go as far as burning your tongue with a hot iron. President Taft said that the Puritans “came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, not the freedom of anybody else’s religion.” The Puritans had a law the same as Leviticus 20:9 , that “a child who curses his or her father or mother shall be put to death.” The government felt that scripture was a legitimate reason for the killing of a young boy for hitting back his father. Then taking Exodus 22:18 into consideration, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,”the Puritans proceeded to execute twenty people and over a hundred were put in prison after confessing to dealing with witchcraft. Those put in prison and killed confessed to flying through the air, attending witch ceremonies, and signing a book given to them by the devil.
problem.” - John Demos. The punishment for those situations was a fine of ten pounds or get whipped publicly in front of everyone, which is pillorying, for both who were involved. The Puritans were very pious but also very violent. Sometimes the punishment were the cutting off of the head, being hung, a body part chopped off, or burned at the post. The Puritans banned people you from their town if they even thought you were involved in anything ungodly, cut your ears off, and even go as far as burning your tongue with a hot iron. President Taft said that the Puritans “came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, not the freedom of anybody else’s religion.” The Puritans had a law the same as Leviticus 20:9 , that “a child who curses his or her father or mother shall be put to death.” The government felt that scripture was a legitimate reason for the killing of a young boy for hitting back his father. Then taking Exodus 22:18 into consideration, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,”the Puritans proceeded to execute twenty people and over a hundred were put in prison after confessing to dealing with witchcraft. Those put in prison and killed confessed to flying through the air, attending witch ceremonies, and signing a book given to them by the devil.