Maypole

school of Atheism” (127). Everything that the Puritans stood for, Morton was boldly going against. But the following events that Morton orchestrated are what really pushed the Puritans over the edge. Firstly, Morton erected a Maypole for a May Day celebration. This Maypole was in the words of Morton, “a lamentable spectacle to the precise Separatists that lived at New Plymouth. They termed it an idol; yea, they called it the Calf of Horeb and stood at defiance with the place” (141). However, Morton

occupants of Merry Mount’s “profane” and “dissolute life[style]” may place some doubt in the truthfulness of his writing, proposing that Bradford’s religious disparities with Morton has obscured his understanding of the maypole celebration (Bradford 155). Unsurprisingly, Morton’s maypole celebration signified the type of religious and societal viewpoints that the Puritans were trying to flee with their arrival to Plymouth. Morton’s presence threatened the Puritan’s idealistic concepts that Bradford valued

clothes, but unless you are hurting someone just go your own way. Bradford felt that Morton was “an enemy against God” (Daly pg 565). Bradford called Morton’s conduct “Lord of misrule”, and Morton felt like it was “harmless fun” (Schoenberg). “His maypole festivities smacked of folk superstitions and pagan practices; his consorting with Indian "lasses" violated their sexual and racial taboos; his hospitality to indentured servants threatened their labor supply and social order; and his trading of guns

Reaction toward Natives & Puritans Thomas Morton and William Bradford lives started off very differently, which may indeed be the reason why they have very different views on the Natives and Puritans. Looking into these differences there is a definite reason why they choose the path they did. Morton taking interest in the Natives and disliking the Puritans happened due to his beliefs and his interest in new things. Bradford for intense was a Puritan, and came to dislike the Natives due to the fact

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Maypole of Merry Mount” still seems to follow the traditions and conventions of English Romanticism, despite having an American concept as its subject, in its use of several Romantic themes and figures. First among these themes is that of revelry and carelessness, as the Lord of May emphasizes: O, Edith, this is out golden time! Tarnish it not by any pensive shadow of mind; for it may be that nothing of futurity will be brighter than the mere remembrance of now passing

In the story, Raymond’s Run, Squeaky, the protagonist likes to run. Not only does she practice almost every single day, she also wins every single track meet that she attends. Above all reasons is that she attended the maypole race since kindergarten and has won. The first reason Squeaky loves running is that she practices almost every day. For example, the text tells the readers “ about to take a stroll down Broadway so I can practice my breathing exercise.” This example

pilgrims) both made accounts of their lives in Massachusetts. Each of their tales was different from one another's, especially their perspectives of the Indians and religious values. In Morton's "New English Canaan", he recounts the day that the Maypole was erected to stand on Ma-re Mount. While this pole was agreeable with Morton and the Native Americans it was not however,

the time of sacred alchemical marriage between god Bael, their solar father and goddess Danu, their earth mother. Moreover, the marriage and the intercourse of Bael, the solar father and Danu the earth mother is symbolized by the performance of the Maypole dance during this season. Therefore, we celebrate our earthly parents and their intercourse that created us during this time of the year. This is a special moment to celebrate fertility and mating all over the world.

Thomas Morton and the Puritans An anti-"city on a hill" with a maypole compensating for something? A pleasurable refuge for indentured servants freed from service and respected natives? A place where a man just wanted to annoy his uptight, religious neighbors? Those are the obvious conclusions, but with like most anything in history, there's meaning and significance that we don't catch at first glance. Thomas Morton had an agenda, puritan leader John Winthrop may have had a secret, and there

Similar Celebrations that fall around or on this date? Beltane- Beltane is celebrated throughout the country as Los Mayos (lit. "the Mays") often in a similar way to "Fiesta de las Cruces" in many parts of Hispanic America. "Maias" is a superstition throughout Portugal, with special focus on the northern territories and rarely elsewhere. Maias is the dominant naming in Northern Portugal, but it may be referred to by other names, including Witches' day (Dia das Bruxas), the Donkey (O Burro, referring