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Beowulf

cause of a king in order to help him, essentially asking nothing in return. There is another character, Unferth, who approaches B...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Medoro as an Ideal Knight

that the love story between Angelica and Medoro is one that does exemplify these larger quality of which Burke speaks. First, Medo...

Goethe’s Faust

A 5 page character study and summation of Goethe’s Faust. Bibliography lists 4 sources....

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Epic of Gilgamesh and the Character Enkidu

wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Character Analysis of Philip in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

Puritan Themes in Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration

Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

Puritan Beliefs and Their Impact on Society

2000, p. 40). This small number would of course have included those who believed as he did. Calvinism encouraged its adherents to ...

Demos: “The Unredeemed Captive”

people into the faith was unsurpassed. But the Puritans had come to the New World to escape religion (Catholic) persecution and to...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Puritan Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors

such a doctrine demands its adherents to examine themselves closely and constantly correct any "imperfections" so that they will b...

Trial of Anne Hutchinson

he refers t the bible study meetings that Hutchinson has been conducting in her home to be a "thing not tolerable nor comely in th...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Puritanism after Emigration

to escape persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happen...

Puritanism in America

to reform the church in England; the story of the Puritans efforts and their emigration to North America is well known. This paper...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

Bradstreet and Taylor: The Poetical Expression of Puritanical Values

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

The Puritan Revolution and Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

Anne Hutchinson of Massachusetts

This paper consists of five pages and discusses why Anne Hutchinson would be perceived as threatening to the Puritan rule in Massa...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

The Search for Jon Winthrop in The Puritan Dilemma

than with the individual. England regarded the Puritans as near-heretics in their abandonment of tradition as they sought to live...

American Religious Freedom and the Puritans

In five pages this paper examines the Puritans in America and how the concept of religious freedom as a double standard. Four sou...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

What if the Mayflower Had Landed in Jamestown instead of Plymouth?

that ended with the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, a band of settlers once again took to the sea on a quest for the settleme...