where everyone strives to be perfect and people who struggle publicly are shunned. This is what many puritan societies that were established in the new world looked like. Personal struggles were seen as weakness‚ and were to be kept to oneself. In his novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the alienation of his character‚ Hester Prynne‚ to reveal that the strict moral values of her Puritan community are not followed for God’s glory but for personal gain‚ and how they hypocritically judge
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by the government and that a person could be put it in jail for. A sin is breaking a moral law that a person would not go to jail for but may receive punishment for‚ and committing sins is commonly associated with religions. For example‚ in the Puritan society there is little separation between religion and law so adultery is first considered a sin but then adulterers are punished as if it was a crime (Ch. 2‚ 42). In today’s society adultery or cheating on your significant other is still considered
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Massachusetts Bay was founded by the Puritans for religious beliefs. The church of England didn’t accept the beliefs of the Puritans. So then‚ the puritans left as families on boats. The puritans wanted religious freedom yet they were not very tolerate any other religions. Anne Hutchinson challenged the puritans beliefs and gender roles. She was trialed and later banished from Massachusetts. William Penn was also banished for not believing the puritans beliefs. Pennsylvania was founded by William
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other hand‚ the New England colonies were not as tolerable as the Chesapeake colonies. The Puritans were a group of people in England to adopt Calvinist teachings when they became unhappy with how the Church of England was too similar to the Catholic religion. They left England for the Jamestown colony‚ but were blown off course and settled in present-day Massachusetts. There‚ they established a Puritan colony. Religion played a large role in the social order of the New England colonies. Due to
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needlework is in great demand‚ many high officials including the governor want to clothe from Hester. Hester now makes items of clothing for the Puritan men and women to wear at all ceremonies excluding weddings. At this point‚ Hester was still a social outcast‚ however‚ she was demonstrating her astonishing ability with
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austere beliefs toward Arminianism theology‚ the tolerance toward the Puritans was greatly reduced. Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan wife‚ mid-wife and mother of fifteen children. She migrated to the ‘New world’ in the 1630’s as part of the ‘Great Migration.’ Anne Hutchinson was a learned‚ intelligent and a pious woman. She and her husband remained in England until 1634 and managed to attend church‚ in spite of the trouble toward Puritans‚ held by Rev. John Wheelwright and Rev. John Cotton. The reader states
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throughout Bradstreet ’s poem "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet‚ Who Deceased August‚ 1665‚ Being a Year and a Half Old" that demonstrate Anne Bradstreet ’s love‚ sorrow‚ grief‚ and the struggle Bradstreet experiences with the Puritan faith because of the loss of a granddaughter. Anne Bradstreet is the speaker in her poem "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet‚ Who Deceased August‚ 1665‚ Being a Year and a Half Old." This poem is written in iambic pentameter which
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ sin and guilt play a huge role in the Puritan society. The author uses Hester to show that people who make mistakes will often face consequences that isolate them from their society. Throughout the Scarlet Letter‚ Hester experiences the effects of isolation and the outcome of sin due to the corrupt rules and strict moral values in the society. In the eyes of the Puritan society Hester is a true sinner due to her committing adultery. While being on display
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the rules"‚ he is supposed to follow them to the letter. This is why‚ when Hester visits his house to deliver his gloves‚ she is so surprised at its state. Instead of a humble abode tastefully decorated in the muted pastels and earthtones of the Puritan lifestyle‚ she was slightly amused (but not particularly surprised) to find very near the opposite. Before they even enter‚ she is struck by the opulence of the house. It had walls which were "overspread with a kind of stucco‚ in which fragments of
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Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan woman whose acts of not agreeing with the Puritan doctrine had her excommunicated from the church. Anne did not believe that the people were predestined to go to Heaven or Hell but it would be determined based on their works. Accused of Blasphemy Anne was sent to court because of her actions which is now known as the Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts case. This case shows the effects of Political‚ Social and Historical. In the Puritan days‚ the government’s choices
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