Question No. 1: Discuss the characteristics of Puritan Age in your own words, along with interesting literary examples. Answer: PURITAN AGE Background: The 15th and 16th century witnessed the rise of a group of protestant in England called "Puritans". They opposed the arts, culture, singing, dancin...
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...
