Analysis Of The Novel ' Three Plays For Puritans '

Neil Hughes grew up in Liverpool with his mother and father. He was a cheerful and active child, who was very talkative and appeared to be the most joyful and comical of all the children in the film 7 Up. Yet after a dramatic turn to which the source is not completely clear, he ended up homeless by age 21. With an in-depth look at his life considering environmental, biological and psychological factors, it becomes apparent that his life was not a typical one, veering away from any standard timeline and lacking any amount of stability.

Question 6: In what way do the Puritan characters (or Puritan society) exemplify hypocrisy? How do certain characters’ actions or the narrator’s commentary reveal both individual and societal hypocrisy?

Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the ideology of Puritan society in the novel the Scarlet Letter; however reader also get to witness his characters being an illustration of hypocrisy and victims to their own guilt. In the Scarlet Letter, as in many of Hawthorne’s shorter works, he makes profuse use of the Puritan past: its odd exclusionary belief, its harsh code of ruling, its concern with sex and witchcraft. The Scarlet Letter is a story that is embellished but yet simple. Many readers may view this novel as a soap opera due to the way Hawthorne conveys this Puritan society’s sense of strictness and inability to express true emotion along with the secrecy and how deceiving the characters are being. As the story unfolds the main character Hester Prynne is bounded in marriage at an early age. She engages in an adulterous affair with an unknown member of their small village. Hester soon becomes pregnant and with her husband’s absence the chances of this child belonging to her husband are slim. The towns’ people know that she has committed a sin and imprisons her for her crime.

A society that praises moral righteousness and piety is destroyed by a series of witch trials that are ironically immoral and unfair. The Salem Witch Trials are fueled by personal motives and feuds that emerge because of the restrictions in Puritan society. The society nurtures a culture of fear and distrust that stems from dread of the devil and strict adherence to the Bible. Salem is the perfect environment for fear and vengeance to spread through witchcraft accusations, because people have no other means to gain power or get revenge on enemies. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller portrays how the Puritan society in Salem influences the witch trials and increases their impact, because of the religion-based justice system, women and

Arthur Miller made sure to point out that having a good reputation was very important to the characters in The Crucible. After all, they are Puritans. Puritans always felt the pressure to succeed. They were on a “city upon hill” (Winthrop 1). They believed that everyone looked up to them-- that they were always in the spotlight. If they ever slacked off, it would feel like the end of the world for them. It is shown in the book that if one does not have a good name, then they’ll be rejected by the society. They might as well do anything to make sure they have a good reputation. This led to the Puritans’ hyper concern for reputation that was a driving force behind the witch trials as dramatized in The Crucible. Reverend Parris, Reverend Hale,

Watching the play to kill a Mockingbird was a wonderful production that captures the audience attention. A playwright is a person who writes plays for that stage and also they create scripts that tell stories through the words and action of characters. Most of the playwright’s people work alone and some of the time they share the work of creating script with the actors and directors.

While on the scaffold, she has a strong face on, attempting to look as if having a baby out of wedlock and then living in prison has held no effect on her. However, Hawthorne states on page 55 that Hester “felt at moments, as if she must needs shriek out with the power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffold down upon the ground, or else go mad at once.” She is still trying to figure out what is best for her daughter, and she obviously still has feelings for the father that she has yet to acknowledge and deal with in an emotionally healthy manner. After Hester is released from the prison, she seems to become more charitable, more pious, and accepts her punishment. The narrator states that walking out of the prison was much more torturous for Hester than the scaffold was at its peak. Here, she accepts that the public scrutiny of her and her child will become an ever-present part of their life. While she still feels deep shame for her actions and having the Scarlet Letter branded in her clothing makes her miserable, it allows her to think clearly. She has chosen to stay in Boston, since it is the birthplace of her daughter, Pearl. The narrator reveals on page 77 that she has accepted it as the place where she will live out her punishment and purge her soul. She has also become more perceptive of the society. She feels as if the Scarlet Letter allows her to look past her own sins and into the sins of others. In conclusion, she is still the same woman she was before

Morgan organizes The Puritan Family into six different main topics. “Puritanism and Society” begins with insight on the behavior, thought processes, and ideals of a “good” Puritan, in addition to how they functioned within their own society. “The Education of a Saint” details the beliefs and morals a Puritan is surrounded by as a child. Lastly, “Puritan Tribalism” introduces claims involving the cause of the Puritan downfall. The remaining chapters “Husband and Wife”, ”Masters and Servants”, and “The Family in the Social Order” are all self-explanatory to their respective titles.

Arthur Miller bases the play on the historical account of the Salem witch trials. Miller creates an atmosphere and mood within the play recreating the historical period of Puritan culture.The Puritans demonstrated their faithfulness, honesty, and integrity of physical labor. The Puritans did not tolerate inappropriate behavior. Those with inappropriate behavior were punished publicly and severely if needed.Miller’s exploration of human psyche and behavior makes the play an interesting masterpiece. On one hand, Miller addressed a particularly dark period in American history a time which people believed the devil walked the streets of Salem and could manifest in anyone.The play continues to affect audiences by allowing them to see how dark desires and hidden agendas can be played out.Abigail is a young woman who takes the opportunity to reverse fate, she had affair with Proctor so Abigail takes advantage of the chance to eliminate proctor’s wife by accusing her of witchcraft.The Putnam also seize the opportunity the royal charter was taken away in 1692 and land titles became invalid. Mr. Putnam like Abigail had hidden agendas he will stop at nothing for his own desire even if reaching his goals means falsely accusing his neighbors of witchcraft so he can get their lands.A man by the name of Giles Corey tries to tell the courts he has proof that Putnam is accusing his neighbors of witchcraft but Corey does not want to reveal the name so the court arrests him.After mary warren

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he strongly outlines Puritanism and its effects on the village of Salem. The intensity of the Puritanism religion lead to an overwhelming sense of suspicion and paranoia coupled with personal issues in the tightknit community. It can easily be concluded that the witch trials started and quickly escalated due to the issues that branch off of Puritanism.. The most paramount of the effects from Puritanism include hysterical fear, personal grudges, and the struggle of upholding reputations.

In the group that I was in our claim was that the role of irony in “Trifles draws attention to specific actions and dialogues among the characters, which groups the women and men into respective groups, each thinking they were an “insider” and the other was an “outsider”. Today, many social interactions such as liking commenting and using emoji’s on Facebook may serve different meanings, which often hints to “inside-joking” where only the “insiders” are privileged with the information to appreciate the joke. The use of Facebook to model the interactions within Trifles is meant to mimic 21st communication, highlighting ironic moments in the play, creating a sense of diaspora amongst both the men and women groups, ultimately hinting to the overall ironic ending exposing the women as the true insiders. My group had a really good claim and supportive evidence to back it up throughout the PowerPoint. Our style was very creative and very humorous.

Throughout American history, no matter what time period, humans have been categorized, discriminated against, and treated according to their class, financial status, and race. Many concrete and obvious examples of this have appeared throughout the years, ranging from the Salem witch trials in the late 1600’s, all the way to the recent civil rights movements in the 1950’s and 60’s. Social history uses personal stories to show how class/status and race played a part in the way people were treated in America.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a man who was both plagued and absorbed by the legacy of the Puritans in New England. He was related to John Hathorne, a Puritan judge during the infamous Salem Witch trials of 1692. In The Scarlet Letter, his fictional account of mid-17th century Boston presents an opportunity to examine different themes commonly associated with Puritans. Particularly the nature of sin, personal identity and the repression of natural urges are themes that appear repeatedly through the novel. While his account of this time period may not be completely historically accurate, it is indicative of the persistent thematic influence of Puritan culture on American and New England society.

    What are the attitudes of the young Puritan husband Goodman Brown toward women, of the author toward women, of  other characters in the story toward women? This essay intends to answer that question.

On the 28th April 2011, I went to see a professional production of To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee at the 'Blackpool Grand Theatre'. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935 in Alabama, a story about innocence, knowledge, prejudice and courage. In the beginning the main character, Scout, starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times around her, as the story goes on she gains knowledge of these times by fellow kids around her accusing her dad of being a "nigger lover" which then was an insult. Her father was being courageous of a black man being falsely accused of raping a white girl. Her father, Atticus, is a criminal defence attorney only