The Puritans
The Puritans were members of a religious and social movement of the 1500ıs and 1600ıs. The Puritans started in England and spread to America were it greatly influenced the political, social, and especially religious organizations. In the book, The Crucible the religious aspect is shown. The political and the social aspect is shown in the book, The Scarlet Letter. There were two men whom dwelled on Puritan beliefs. These men were John Wycliffe and John Calvin. Wycliffe was a philosophy professor at Oxford University in the 1300ıs. Calvin was a the leader of a religious movement in the 1500ıs that gave rise to the Protestanism called the ³Reformation.² These two men criticized the churchıs wealth and luxurious lifestyles of some clergies. The daring risk that Wycliff and Calvin took was that they printed up a copy of the Bible in the language of the common people rather than the official language of the church, Latin. The Puritans emphasized Bible reading, prayer, and preaching of what they believed in. They simplified the ritual of th
In the book The Crucible the whole town of Salem was greatly religious. This is easily seen by the way they were so against dancing and singing. The town of Salem thought of this as an act of the devil. In a way the town of Salem was also political. The townspeople knew that if they could make John Proctor confess that he has been conversing with the devil, then there would be others in the town that would confess as well. This is an example of how the town of Salem was basically a Puritan Town. known as ³Pilgrims.² Over time, the term ³Puritan² has become to mean a strictness in morals or religious matters. The term is often applied to cultural traits found in the literature and social attitudes shared by, the New England Colonies. Such traits include an emphasis on education and the glorification of hard work. The term Puritan was first used in the late 1500ıs to identify a party called the national church. The party wanted to make further changes in the church than had already been brought out by Protestant reforms. Defenders of t
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