Essays on Puritans

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a romance novel, depicting the harsh truth that Puritanism was a faulty and overall, ineffective system. Hester Prynne, an adulterous woman, is seen as the inferiority of the town because of her sin, despite the fact that many…

The Puritans were religious settlers who came to America, with the reason being that they needed reform of the Church of England. They wanted to purify the religious practices in England and its government. With that failing, they separated from it to create their own,…

Jonathan Edwards wrote “Sinners in the Hands of the Angry Gods,” and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “The Minister’s Black Veil”. Edwards and Hawthorne appeal to different emotions to better portray their beliefs. Edwards uses strong word choices, similes, metaphors, and analogies, for example, “your destruction would…

The Crucible revolves around the New World Puritan society and the practice of McCarthyism, with Christianity being the base of their ethics and morals. However, many readers are unable to grasp the way of life in the Salem, finding difficulty to relate to and understand…

Question: In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 to the 1660s? Famous writer, William Arthur Ward once stated, “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if…

THE PURITANS The Puritans were a group of English colonist who moved to America in the 1620s and 1630s. They left England in search of freedom of religion. The Puritans believed the Church of England was impure. They wanted to purify it of all the…

Economic, Political, and Social Contributions to New England Society by the Puritans From 1630 to the early 1660s, the Puritans contributed enormously to the development of the New England colonies. The Puritans fled from England in overwhelming numbers to escape religious persecution and founded Massachusetts…