Upon The Burning Of Our Home Analysis
No privacy? No sin? This is how the Puritans lived their day by day lives. Of course everyone is only human, but if they did ever sin or defied one of the 10 Bible commandments the Puritans would punish them by whipping, condeming, branding or execution. There are a few pieces of literature that portrays their religious values and beliefs; their life values. The Crucible, “Upon the Burning of Our Home”, and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, are written by well known Puritans. The Puritans specifically believe that church and state should be separate, because they believed that they didn’t need a middleman to God and they could speak to Him themselves. “Upon the Burning of Our Home” is a poem about Anne Bradstreet waking up to her house being on fire. During this fire her attitude changes from “why”, to “God will take care of it and everything I need will be
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with him in Heaven.” Anne says “I, starting up, the light did spy, And to my God my heart did cry To strengthen me in my Distress….. 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; .. (Anne Bradstreet 1-2).”In everyday life as of now that wouldn’t be the case. Whomever it could have been would wish it wasn’t them and even test their religious faith. Just the theme of this poem portraits that they were very religious and they had a strong belief in God. Puritans did not value day to day item, they were not materialistic people, but they did favor their land. The next excerpt is a sermon from Jonathan Edwards.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” In this sermon he does use very strong metaphors and guilt to get his point across. He is trying to tell his congregation that just because you come to church and do not sin here does not mean that God does not see you sin outside of the church. Not only is he speaking to his congregation he also speaking to all of the people that are not part of his religious faith, he was trying to convert anyone he can by scaring them into telling them that God controls your destiny and he get tired of you he can take it away from you. He quotes the bible and says “Surely thou didst set them in slippery Places; thou castest them down into Destruction. It implies that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected Destruction. As he that walks in slippery Places (Jonathan Edwards).” Like he says it implies that God can drop them at anytime, further in the excerpt it also say that they can drop themselves. Jonathan Edwards attempts to convert others to puritanism makes his beliefs that his religion is the best shines
through. In this last piece of literature “The Crucible” there is just about an entire city accused of witchcraft. The puritans believed that anything wrong was the devil or God punishment. A common cold, the devil, this was their explanation of just about everything because of course around this time period there wasn’t out modern technology. Everyone accused in this town is prosecuted based on word, because as stated before they wouldn’t break the Ten Commandments. One is about lying of course, so the judge believed just what some eleven year old children said. One of the families were accused, but the only reason that the judge believed the accusation was because of their lack of arrival in church. “Hale: Good, then. He makes himself more comfortable. In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day. Proctor: No, sir, you are mistaken. Hale: Twenty-six time in seventeen month, sir. I must call that rare. Will you tell me why you are so absent? (Authur Miller).” They had such strong beliefs and values that they some believed and others were upset. Society now still doesn’t use a middleman to God like the Puritans believed. The current state of this country does not practice the beliefs as strongly as they did. The only reason that the Puritans did practice so strongly is because that is what they valued, their religion. The valued God himself and no the materials on Earth. While they did believe in the Devil they believed in God and his power.
with him in Heaven.” Anne says “I, starting up, the light did spy, And to my God my heart did cry To strengthen me in my Distress….. 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; .. (Anne Bradstreet 1-2).”In everyday life as of now that wouldn’t be the case. Whomever it could have been would wish it wasn’t them and even test their religious faith. Just the theme of this poem portraits that they were very religious and they had a strong belief in God. Puritans did not value day to day item, they were not materialistic people, but they did favor their land. The next excerpt is a sermon from Jonathan Edwards.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” In this sermon he does use very strong metaphors and guilt to get his point across. He is trying to tell his congregation that just because you come to church and do not sin here does not mean that God does not see you sin outside of the church. Not only is he speaking to his congregation he also speaking to all of the people that are not part of his religious faith, he was trying to convert anyone he can by scaring them into telling them that God controls your destiny and he get tired of you he can take it away from you. He quotes the bible and says “Surely thou didst set them in slippery Places; thou castest them down into Destruction. It implies that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected Destruction. As he that walks in slippery Places (Jonathan Edwards).” Like he says it implies that God can drop them at anytime, further in the excerpt it also say that they can drop themselves. Jonathan Edwards attempts to convert others to puritanism makes his beliefs that his religion is the best shines
through. In this last piece of literature “The Crucible” there is just about an entire city accused of witchcraft. The puritans believed that anything wrong was the devil or God punishment. A common cold, the devil, this was their explanation of just about everything because of course around this time period there wasn’t out modern technology. Everyone accused in this town is prosecuted based on word, because as stated before they wouldn’t break the Ten Commandments. One is about lying of course, so the judge believed just what some eleven year old children said. One of the families were accused, but the only reason that the judge believed the accusation was because of their lack of arrival in church. “Hale: Good, then. He makes himself more comfortable. In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day. Proctor: No, sir, you are mistaken. Hale: Twenty-six time in seventeen month, sir. I must call that rare. Will you tell me why you are so absent? (Authur Miller).” They had such strong beliefs and values that they some believed and others were upset. Society now still doesn’t use a middleman to God like the Puritans believed. The current state of this country does not practice the beliefs as strongly as they did. The only reason that the Puritans did practice so strongly is because that is what they valued, their religion. The valued God himself and no the materials on Earth. While they did believe in the Devil they believed in God and his power.