The Crucible Background Research: Puritanism
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THE CRUCIBLE
BACKGROUND RESEARCH:
PURITA
NISMAN TH O N Y H A LL
AB R I L I N E L L
DE S T I N Y I S I G UZ O
VA N E SS A LO P E Z
BR I A N A L I E BE R M AN
P ER I OD 1 GR O U P 4
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SOAPSTONESpeaker- Group 4
Occasion- Class assignment from instructor
Audience- Students
Purpose- To inform about Puritanism and elaborate on religious practices and beliefs
Subject- Puritanism
Tone- Informative
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WHAT IS PURITANISM?• Puritanism is the set of religious beliefs and
practices retroactively to Puritans by modern scholars.
• It was originally of abuse toward people excessively narrow-mindedly or hypocritically religious.
• But is now referring to the fervent religious “godly” fraction of the English nation
• Dissatisfied with England’s imperfectly reformed status quo between 1560’s and 1640’s.
• American Puritanism is now interpreted as the nineteenth-century ministers.
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IMPORTANT PEOPLE• John O’Sullivan advocates the annexation of Texas, declaring that ‘manifest
destiny to overspread free development of our yearly multiplying millions”.• Mid-nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought widespread
attention to America’s Puritan past by setting many of his works in seventeenth-century New England.
• His works: The House of the Seven Gables (1851) The Scarlett Letter (1850)• Ralph Waldo Emerson was train at Harvard to become an Unitarian minister• Henry David Thoreau also trained at Harvard for both inherited the sins of
the fathers from the 17th century.
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DAILY LIFE• Boys rode horses while girls sewed and read the
bible• Women did not participate in town meetings and
were excluded from decision making in the church.• Children often were sent to stay with other
families for training, discipline, and etc.• Puritan parents were discouraged from showing
affection so the children would be ready to obey God’s laws.
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EDUCATION
• Education was always religious; they needed to read the Bible.
• Children was also to read so they don’t have to be barbarians and understand the laws of the colony.
• 50 families had to have teachers and citizens of the town had to pay the teacher’s salary.
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AGAINST THE EXCESSES OF PURITANISM
• For any man to take upon him, the office of public preaching, or ministering you
were sent to execute the same.• The judge lawfully called and sent, which
be chosen and called to this work by men.
• Christian men’s profession, but rather be certain sure witness and effectual signs
of grace, and God.
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THE RISE OF PURITANISM• In 1588 English Reformers returned from exile
on the European Continent.• Many of them were deeply influenced by
Calvin’s and desired to be enacted in England• Reformers preferred to call themselves “the
Godly.”
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• Shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters and the leaders who contended against them.
• Confessions of religious experience by the “diabolical” possession of a young woman and testimony of Native Americans accept Christianity.
THE NEW WORLD
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