She was an excellent mother; devoted wife that supported her husband, and for the most part was an honest woman. Despite the fact that she did lie in court, the reason being she wanted to protect her husband from being executed. ... On the contrast, Abigail Williams deviated from the ideals for a proper Puritan. ...
Puritans also believe they have a duty to fulfill their covenant with God by serving as an example of an ideal Christian community to the world. ... Rowlandson is extremely relieved once she is reunited with her husband. ... Throughout Rowlandson's narrative, she mentions her husband. She often asks the Indians about her husband, but she is told lies. ... It is clear that she relies on her husband for leadership and guidance. ...
Her husband, Chillingworth who she loved in the beginning but didn't last, is overseas and Hester thinks that her husband is dead. Keep in mind that in order for her to fit into the Puritan society, she would have to remain celibate to keep her bond to her early husband, whether he's alive or dead. ... The only negativity of what happened was that of the Puritan society and its unnatural and restrictive laws, forcing its ideals and morals over all the people in such a way going against nature. ... Overall, Hawthorne alters European Romanticism to American Romanticism by finding the t...
Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. They insisted that the Puritans conform to religious practices that they hated, removing their ministers from office and threatening them with" extirpation from the earth" if they did not follow their rules. Passionate Puritan laymen received savage punishments. For example, in 1630 a man was sentenced to life imprisonment, his property was co...
