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Secondly, as to themes, Bradstreet grounded her religious inspiration not only in Puritan orthodoxy but also in the wonders and be...

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

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

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

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

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

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

"this great king will have many stewards, counting himself more honored in dispensing his gifts to man by man, than if he did it b...

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

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

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

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

In six pages a review of this book is presented with the emphasis upon the correlation between Adams' Puritan beliefs and his poli...

political and social ideals integrated into Melvilles stories and pushed the author to reconsider his religious dedication and his...

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...