Religion, Persecution, Family, and Hypocracy:
Have you ever wondered what America was like before industrialization and capitalization? What this place was like before it was the U.S.A., let alone America? Well, the Puritan’s should know because they were the first to live in colonies on the land that is present-day U.S.A. The first thing you should know about the Puritans are, is that they are original from England. The Puritans were exiled from England to the Netherlands, where they re-grouped and finally made a beeline to the new world. In this new world the Puritans sought a life free of religious persecution. Puritans established themselves in places all around the eastern coast, such as Boston, Plymouth, and Georgetown.
After the Puritans made the pilgrimage to the Americas is where everything seems to change for them. They are now their own power with religious freedom and a control on almost all social aspects. The first thing that you should know about the Puritans is that they were a very strict and intolerant people. They are the people who made the strict conservative rules, that if you broke them, it could mean banishment for you and your family into the wilderness where starvation, beasts, and Indians awaited you. Many of us may or may not be relatives of these original pilgrims to the Americas. An acronym for these people who uphold the same values as the Puritans’ did are known as W.A.S.P.’s or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Now onto the authors of this time period. No, we did not have any J.K. Rowling’s or J.R. Tolken’s emerge from this time period. Actually, the opposite came from the writers in this Puritan society. This was because anything that wasn’t done for and or about God was blasphemous. Such as decorations or singing within the holy church. A perfect example of the literature of the time was a woman named Anne Bradstreet. She was both a mother and a poet. Her poetry focused on various topics such as thanking god for her husband and her love for her children being at one with God’s eternal love. This is obviously poetry that would not be appealing to the mainstream in today’s culture, but during the time of the Puritans, this type of “subliminal-messaging”, as it would be called today, was the types of literature that the Puritans fed off.
Have you ever wondered what America was like before industrialization and capitalization? What this place was like before it was the U.S.A., let alone America? Well, the Puritan’s should know because they were the first to live in colonies on the land that is present-day U.S.A. The first thing you should know about the Puritans are, is that they are original from England. The Puritans were exiled from England to the Netherlands, where they re-grouped and finally made a beeline to the new world. In this new world the Puritans sought a life free of religious persecution. Puritans established themselves in places all around the eastern coast, such as Boston, Plymouth, and Georgetown.
After the Puritans made the pilgrimage to the Americas is where everything seems to change for them. They are now their own power with religious freedom and a control on almost all social aspects. The first thing that you should know about the Puritans is that they were a very strict and intolerant people. They are the people who made the strict conservative rules, that if you broke them, it could mean banishment for you and your family into the wilderness where starvation, beasts, and Indians awaited you. Many of us may or may not be relatives of these original pilgrims to the Americas. An acronym for these people who uphold the same values as the Puritans’ did are known as W.A.S.P.’s or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Now onto the authors of this time period. No, we did not have any J.K. Rowling’s or J.R. Tolken’s emerge from this time period. Actually, the opposite came from the writers in this Puritan society. This was because anything that wasn’t done for and or about God was blasphemous. Such as decorations or singing within the holy church. A perfect example of the literature of the time was a woman named Anne Bradstreet. She was both a mother and a poet. Her poetry focused on various topics such as thanking god for her husband and her love for her children being at one with God’s eternal love. This is obviously poetry that would not be appealing to the mainstream in today’s culture, but during the time of the Puritans, this type of “subliminal-messaging”, as it would be called today, was the types of literature that the Puritans fed off.
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