Essays on John Winthrop

“Another One for the Fire” by Linnie Blake considers the philosophy of George A. Romero’s films of the seventies in the context of the time and from the sociological perspective. The author dwells on three Romero’s films of the period – “The Crazies” (1973),”Martin” (1976), and “Dawn of the Dead” (1978). Blake asserts that all three films by this director have similar peculiarities as well as similar main ideas due to the tendencies which were in the American society of the time and as a result of the changes which had taken place just before the beginning ...

John Winthrop in 1630 as the head of the resettlement expedition crossed the Atlantic in search of a place for a "city upon a hill". There, on the territory of a new continent he was planning to establish a new perfect society, which could serve as an example for the rest of humanity. The religion was of a fundamental role in his belief, since he was a Puritan and was leading others of this faith, and they believed it was God who showed them the way to the new continent where they could start performing his God`s will ...

The Puritan movement consisted of a group of English Protestants in the 16th and the 17th centuries. The movement was founded on the ideology of purity of worship and doctrine as well as individual and group piety. It was viewed as a social danger as it seemed to generate an excess of evangelical fervor disturbing the public tranquility and promoting a mysticism obscuring the imperatives of morality. The movement was firmly based on purity of religion as their main agenda and did not base its agenda on economic reforms and the then upcoming innovations. They felt that advancing their own profit and ...

Salem witch trials refer to a series of trials and executions of people who were allegedly involved in witch practice. All these incidents of witch practice took place during seventeenth century in newly established colonies of New England, Massachusetts. Puritans used to inhabit in these colonies and their theocracy is blamed for such trials that took place in an organized manner. This paper intends to discuss Salem witch trials, role of puritans in these trials and several other related aspects. Puritanism is a part of Christian belief that emerged in the England at some point in seventeenth century. Puritans were ...

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American Constitution was not a result of a day's effort. There were a lot of discussion, debates and compromises which went into the making of a viable US Constitution. The founding fathers of American democracy were invariably influenced by the political ideas of some all-time great philosophers including John Locke, John Winthrop and Thomas Paine. Divided on the distribution of power among a central governing body and state governments, Federalists and Anti-Federalists too are mere reflection of the ideas propagated by these three philosophers. In order to know more about the political ideals of these forefathers, I would highlight on the main ideas of ...

The Puritans of the 17th century remained an extremely patriarchal people; their primary goals were to glorify God and place their earthly passions behind them, all the while placing men in positions of authority, leaving women little choices for activities and positions (Bremer, 1976). According to Edmund Morgan, "the central Puritan dilemma was the problem of doing right in a world that does wrong." If this is to be believed, then the works of many important Puritan authors would express this dilemma through prose - their feeble attempts to make right this flawed world that they lived in. In this ...

According to Edmund Morgan, "the central Puritan dilemma was the problem of doing right in a world that does wrong." If this is to be believed, then the works of many important Puritan authors would express this dilemma through prose - their feeble attempts to make right this flawed world that they lived in. In this essay, the concept of right versus wrong will be explored in the works of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor.

William Bradford's book Of Plymouth Plantation was the perfect example of this dilemma; the Puritans themselves went to Plymouth in order ...