Nathaniel Hawthorne, an outstanding novelist in the 19th century, is deeply influenced by Puritanism. His works are often touched with complex and deep Puritan color. By The Scarlet Letter,Hawthorne wants to evoke peo...
Puritanism is the soul of American culture. Starting from a study of Puritanism, the paper tentatively explores the functions of Puritanism in conceiving American culture as a whole, and American values especially, an...
On the surface,Desire Under the Elms is a tragedy of the Cabot family which borrows its plot from the ancient Greek tragedy and legend Hippolytus and Medea by Euripides and the Greek myth Oedipus by Sophocles,about lu...
Impacted by the family background and social trend,Hawthorne frequently got perplexed.At the same time,he also criticized the extremism in traditional Puritanism and insisted on a more tolerant attitude towards the di...
Anne Bradstreet,the first American poet,is popular among the puritan community.Yet a close examination of her poetry reveals her belying inconsistency with the Puritan values.While Puritan community devoted itself to ...
Featured by its uniqueness and historic significance, American exceptionalism plays an indispensable role in shaping the American political,especially the foreign policies, as well as social lives. To understand the o...
Puritanism was entirely English in its origins,yet the movement achieved its greatest influence in America.As a cultural heritage,American Puritanism had become one of the most enduring shaping influences in American ...