Idealism‚ Logic‚ and Puritanism in the Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ is about the struggle three people face while trying to live their lives and find happiness in a Puritan society. In the early 1640s‚ Hester comes to the small town of Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ while her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ settles business in Great Britain. Hester and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale‚ the town ’s priest‚ engage in the act of adultery and produce a baby girl named Pearl; though
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were settlers that took a voyage to the new world to have the religious freedom that they didn’t have in England. They made the voyage in the 16th century. “Puritanism was an under siege from the church and crown‚ it sent an offshoot in the third and fourth decades of the 17th century to the northern English colonies in the New World” (Puritanism). Puritans actually landed in Salem and when they begin to spread out merged with the Pilgrims‚ who landed in Plymouth colony. Roger Williams leads some
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home and abroad. He lived in 19th century when Puritanism was still prevailing. And his family members were strict followers of Puritanism‚ who did lots of extreme misdeeds. This kind of family background had influenced Hawthorne a lot. These two factors both contributed to Hawthorne’s writing style and themes. He believed that man was born with sin‚ and mankind was basically depraved. The doctrines of Calvinism have overlapped meanings with Puritanism‚ such as the concept of the original sin‚ atonement
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word ‘purify’ and Puritanism is described as a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic ‘popery’. From this description‚ it is certain that Puritans are in search of pure Christianity and they try to be good Christians. On the grounds that Puritans take significant place in those years’ America‚ I would like to take the Puritanism as the starting point of my discussion. Puritanism has key role in
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writer of American literature in 19th century‚ was influenced by Puritanism. He was haunted by his sense of evil and sin in his whole life. In his works‚ he saw the cruel ruling of Puritanism through his puritan view and showed his dissatisfaction towards it. To analyze through symbolism in his famous work of "The Scarlet Letter"‚ we can see the important theme of Original sin and the redemption of humanity. Key words: Puritanism‚ original sin‚ redemption 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life: 1.1
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Shinong(Sharon) Cai Student number: 387348 Topic:In no more then 500 words‚ write a short account‚ description‚ or discussion of Max Webber‚ “ Confucianism and Puritanism‚” In Chapter eight of “The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism‚” Max Webber makes a comparison of the eastern philosophy of Confucianism with the western religion of Puritanism. He makes the connection between the how Confucianism has shaped China historically from an individuals personal goals to its economic and commercial conditions
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Anne Bradstreet was a woman during the Puritan era that made a huge impact on women regarding love and feminism within puritanism. In her poem‚ “A Letter to Her Husband” Bradstreet incorporated her true feelings and addresses to readers that her love for her husband is unconditional and that the synopsis of this poem is the love that she has for her husband. “My head‚ my heart‚ mine eyes‚ my life‚ nay‚ more”. To Bradstreet‚ her husband’s love is worth more than materialistic items or anything else
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voice and wants people to hear it by saying things like‚ "Men can do best‚ and women know it well / Pre-eminence in all and each is yours / yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours" (40-42). She wants for women to be accepted as intelligent and opinionated people as well. Thematically‚ Anne Bradstreet wrote about many different topics that are both extensive and varied. She wrote about things like culture‚ nature‚ religion‚ family‚ death and history (Cowell‚ 2008). There are reasons why Anne
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continue his journey. "Puritanism‚ movement arising within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century that sought to purify or reform‚ that church and establish a middle course between Roman Catholicism and the ideas of the Protestant reformers" (Puritanism 1). The term Puritanism was referred to as an insult that was attached by traditional Anglicans who wished to purify the Church of England. The Encarta Online Encyclopedia states that the term Puritanism has often been used as
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