Good Room/Bad Room

NEW UNIT- NEW SEATS!

Take out a clean sheet of paper. Title it “Good Room, Bad Room” Notes.

Take EVERYTHING OFF YOUR DESK aside from the paper and something to write with.

Two Columns- Good Room/Bad Room

Where do these symbols/images come

from?

The Puritans

Overview 16th Century

More extreme Protestants within the church of England

Wanted to “purify” their national church by eliminating every shred of Catholic influence.

James 1 (King 1603) Puritans asked to grant reforms-

he said NO way!

Charles 1 (1660): failed attempt to rule without Parliament’s (many Puritan) support; civil war

4 Convictions

Personal salvation was entirely from god

The Bible provided the indispensible guide to life

Church should reflect the express teaching of scripture

That society was one unified whole

English Puritanism

Known at first for their critical attitude regarding religious compromise made during reign of Elizabeth 1.

Encouraged: Direct personal religious experience Sincere moral code Simple worship services

Christianity should be taken as the focus of human existence

ACT OF UNIFORMITY (1662) English Puritans expelled from church; considered non-

conformists

American Puritanism

17th Century Puritan groups separated from the church (among these were the Pilgrims who in 1620 founded Plymouth Colony)

10 years later= first large Puritan migration

Richard Mather and John Cotton- Massachusetts Bay

Mainstream Calvanistic thought: Stressed personal religious experiences as “God’s elect”

Separation from the Church of England

17th Century Emigrated to the new world Founded a holy commonwealth Remained dominant in New England into the

19th century

Strict and Rigid

PuritanCode

Beliefs

Depravity

Unconditional Election; God “saves” those he wishes

Limited atonement: Jesus died for the chosen

Expected to work hard and repress emotions

No tolerance for individual difference

All sins should be punished

God’s Will

Followers of Satan were witches (social outcasts)

DUALITY

Devil was as real as God

Evil versus Good

Dark versus Light

Individualism versus Conformity

Salem Witch Trials

Facts on Salem Trials

Over 150 people (78% women) were accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692.

19 people were hanged (14 women and 5 men), and one man was pressed to death because he would not say whether he was guilty or innocent.

Nobody was burned at Salem, but they did burn “witches” in Europe.

Evidence used against suspected witches to prove they were on the devil’s side: accused of harming animals, making people sick, pinching people as they slept, unladylike behavior (yelling at their husbands in public).

Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864 Salem, Mass.

One of Hawthorne’s ancestors were among the judges of Salem Witch Trials (only judge to not repent his actions)

Hawthorne was not a Puritan!!!

He looked with distaste upon “the whole dismal severity of the Puritan code of law”.

Transcendental reformer

He called his stories “moral allegories of the heart”; deep psychological complexity, Puritan influence.

Sources

Puritain Beliefs: http://sunburst.usd.edu/~jdudley/241/basic_puritan_beliefs.htm

Salem Facts: Elizabeth Reis Author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Henry Warner Bowden

Reminders

HW: CAREFULLY READ “The Young Goodman Brown”; annotate for symbolism

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