Tempel Anneke was accused of witchcraft in 1663‚ not because of what she did for her community but because she was an elderly female in a man’s world that was set on freeing society of witches. The Christian church which was run by men viewed witchcraft loosely as a way to lump together all practices that could not be explained through the church. It was also demonized by the Church who had no good response to give its people. The Church believed it wasn’t coming from God‚ so it must be evil.
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During the 1600’s the Puritans came to America for religious freedom. When they arrived they found that a few people wouldn’t follow the strict new rules that they had set in place. They soon started calling them out as witches‚ and so the Salem witch trials began. But to know about the Salem Witch trials first you have to know who started them. Once you know who started them then you need to know what happened. How could you tell someone was a witch? How were these people prosecuted? Who were these
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Gardner‚ Gerald B. (1884-1964) Gerald Brousseau Gardner‚ an English hereditary Witch and allegedly responsible for reviving Witchcraft in the modern Western world‚ was born in Blundellands‚ near Liverpool‚ England‚ on June 13‚ 1884. His father served as a justice of the peace‚ being a member of a family in the timber trade business. The family was of Scottish descent‚ tracing its roots to a woman named Grissell Gardner who had been burned as a Witch in 1610 at Newburgh. Gardner’s grandfather marred
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During the year of 1692‚ the small town of Salem seems to have been in a state of panic and confusion. The book Witchcraft at Salem‚ by Chadwick Hansen‚ is about the witchcraft conspiracies the town has experienced. Hansen goes on to explore the truthfulness of the "possessed" young girls. The reason why Hansen wrote the book is to try to set straight the record of the witchcraft phenomena at Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ in the year 1692‚ about which much has been written and much misunderstood. Hansen
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The Puritan and Romanticist Ideas of The Scarlet Letter The standards that the Puritan ideal set are virtually impossible for any human to attain. Part of the ideal was that they believed that man only existed for the Glory of God and to do only His will in effort to obtain future happiness. Religion governed the community and all aspects of life in these communities. Since the ideal was almost impossible to attain‚ society was fraught with sin. Hawthorne addresses sin and transformation through
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In the reading by Bever (year)‚ witchcraft became a prominent issue because of the fact that women in particular used it as an outlet for their aggression‚ and a means to obtain some sort of power. Witchcraft allowed women to be assertive in a patriarchal society. Women were able to vocalize their own opinions and wear people down through the use of fear (Bever 2002). While witchcraft provided power to women at times it was also used as a means of subordinating women‚ who were essential members of
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1.The Puritans and the Quakers responded to the social and political pressures caused by their immigration to the new world by attempting to create a Utopian society but they had deeply failed due to disease and illness and created the opposite of what they wanted‚ a dystopia. This is an imperfect community. The Puritans had soon turned on most of their religious beliefs once the Quakers had appeared in their community‚ and their religious views were different than each other. The Quakers believed
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was highly influenced by the Puritans‚ who helped find most of the colonies in the region after emigrating there from England. The Puritans strict values and ideas helped shape the colonies greatly in several ways. They believed in a representative government which later on became an essential part of the United States’ government. Economically‚ the idea of fair priced goods also came from the Puritans. Strict values in church‚ religion‚ and community were all Puritan customs that helped social development
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Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Prophet by Timothy Hall‚ tells a story of a bold‚ independent‚ self confident‚ and assertive young women during the time of 1636 to 1638. Hall arranged his novel by organizing the chapters in her life story around statements made at her trial. The study of Hutchinson’s life gives us the opportunity to enter into a different world of New England’s founding generation. As Hall’s questions; “what should we make of this remarkable women and her tragic fate? How did she
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Puritans: Christian Believers During the 1600’s the Puritans were a group of people who came from England to get away from the Church of England. Their ideas and beliefs played a huge role in their relocation to the New World. The Puritans felt as if the reformation of the Church of England had not gone far enough‚ and that the Church of England was tolerant of practices of the Catholic Church. (Baym 58). Anne Bradstreet was apart of this migration to the New World. Anne Bradstreet‘s literature
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