Terms for Chapter 2 Sea Dogs-roving English ships that plundered Spanish treasure ships (1560s) St. Augustine–fort Spain created in Florida 1565 to protect the route of its treasure fleet against English ships‚ French settlers‚ hostile Indians (1st permanent Euro. settlement in US) Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries-new policy Spanish leaders introduced after military setbacks to pacify Indians by Christianizing missionaries not conquistadores (1573) Ecomenderos-privelaged spanish landowners
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The Scarlet Letter was a novel composed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The events in the novel were dated back to the 17th century. The Massachusetts Bay Colony included the Puritans that were heavily influenced with the Church. With religion being their origin for both moral and government regulations‚ many things were outlawed. The Puritans obeyed strict standards and if anyone was to deviate from them‚ they were to be punished. Public humiliation and self-punishment were the common disciplines associated
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Puritan society is a period of strict rules harsh punishment‚ and cruel judgment for those who do not follow societal guidelines. When Nathaniel Hawthorne penned The Scarlet Letter‚ he not only exposed the hypocrisy in the Puritan religion‚ but he revealed numerous psychological components. Within the lines of his novel‚ Hawthorne exposes what is perhaps Sigmund Freud’s most prominent theory‚ his take on personality. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter exposes Freud’s personality theory in providing
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17th Century Massachusetts and the Salem Witch Trials In January of 1692‚ the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris became ill‚ and when the children’s health did not improve‚ the village doctor William Griggs was called in to help. He swiftly diagnosed the girls with bewitchment and the famous witch trials of Salem took off. Salem had recently had an epidemic of Small Pox and had always had a strong belief in the Devil. These two factors added with the constant fear of attack from warring
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Massachusetts of 1692‚ their community is set as a theocratic society‚ where the church and the state come as one. Moral laws and state laws are also combined as one. Everyone is expected to live up to the established social norms. Any individual within the Puritan community whose private lives doesn’t conform to the moral laws established by the government is represented as a threat to the community and to the rule of God and true religion. In Salem‚ everything and everyone belongs to either God or the devil
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Individual Against Society The theme of the individual against society is central to the play. Throughout we find evidence of the pressures on individuals to conform to what society expects from them. For example: girls are not allowed to dance‚ books other than the Bible are frowned upon‚ John Proctor is distrusted by many because he does not go to church regularly. This last example is taken very seriously because the society that Proctor lives in is built on religious principles. Anyone choosing
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Why did Puritan leaders in mass bay come to consider Williams a threat? What treatment did he suffer for challenging them? Williams thought all of the government should be removed because it was almost‚ what Williams had interpreted‚ what God was telling the people was right. When Williams believed that the error was not his‚ in a certain situation‚ he was convinced he was right and he wouldn’t back down from anything. They did not want his views to dread throughout the colony. The Puritans saw all
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God In the story “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ Jonathan Edwards’ purpose was to convert and make born again the congregation of Puritan sinners. He was able to achieve this with his eye opening sermons to the congregation. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ Edwards uses rhetorical devices such as diction‚ imagery‚ and tone to contribute to the effectiveness of his sermon. Edwards paints a horrifying picture of eternal damnation for unsaved
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Winthrop´s ’’A Model of Christian Charity’’ - sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while on route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - biblical aproach - Puritan colonists are god’s ’’chosen people’’ - New England is also referred to as ’’New Jerusalem’’ and as ’’city upon a hill’’ (biblical metaphor) - god himself dwells in New England and shows Puritans the way - Winthrop’s view: New England Puritans were not refugees fleeing to avoid persecution; they
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nature of sin in this story is kept vague with the reaction to the potential sin having more effect than the sin itself. For example‚ secret sin is described as “those sad mysteries which we hide.” (2) Each of the characters in the town share the Puritan belief structure concerning sin.
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