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In the 17th century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations, and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the 17th century.
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- The Puritans were obviously quite influenced by their religion and so everything that they believed in (their morals) became law for them.
- i.e.: Salem Witch Trials: they don't think witches are too nice, so political system doesn't think so either.
- because of their religion, it would logically follow that they would try to create a model city, or one based on Christ's message, again Salem Trials: their desperate attempt to get rid of Satan at all costs.
- The Puritans' goal was to be perfect in order to show that they were part of the "elect" or saved
- Puritans and several other forms of Protestanism (is that even right?) believed in Predestination, where God knows who is going to be saved and who is going to be cast into the fiery pits of hell and poked by Satan's minions, and therefore there is nothing you can do about it. This very fatalistic view did not, however, mean that all of New England could just sleep around and drink rum all day. On the other hand, it made it all the more important for the Puritans to show how holy and sacred and awesome they were (i like sarcasm, ok?). They believed that you could find out if you were saved by a personal conversion, or mystical experience (and who knows what happened in this mystical experience, cows could fly from Heaven for all we know, because they never had a mystical experience unless they had too much rum!...sorry:o). anywho, after this mystical experience or (rum drinking fest), they could then show God (and everyone else, come on, who doesn't like to be better than someone else?), how awesome they were! Which is why they never had anything that could be considered even remotely fun, just in case it could potentially, by some twist of the imagination, be a sin, however slight.
- i'd say they got pretty far on their "aspirations", i mean (and i know i keep referring to this) look at the Salem witch trials: that's as close as they got to wipping sin out of New England.
yeah...i really hope some of that helped you...at least you get a scoop on the real Puritans (according to Nienna, DISCLAIMER: i don't hate Puritans, i just think the predestination thing is really funny...and they didn't drink rum). ~Nienna*[=Black][=3][=Tahoma]"She's fading away, away from this world. Drifting like a feather, she's not like the other girls. She lives in the clouds, she talks to the birds. Hopeless little one, she's not like the other girls I know." ~[I]Not Like