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Captain Smith's Style:

-    His works are r>ot fiily reliable.

-    He has over1y vrvid tmagination. mixmg facts and fantasy.

• He seems to have embroidered his adventures.

PUR1TANISM

-    1620 - Plymouth Colony - Separatists from Holland. Pilgnms or the Pilgrim Fathers.

-    Thousands of others came to America, especially durmg the Great Migration of 1630-40.

1620 - Mayflower - nicknamed the Ship of Hope. 65 day voyage across the wintry Atlantic Ocean. 50 Pilgnms (or Saints) as they called themsehies led by William Bradford. The rest - seeking fortunę and adventure. Saints called them "Strangers".

Mayflower Compact - a wntten agreement providing for a democratic govemmenL

EURUANS

-    Their attitude towards all aspects of life - including literaturę is very important.

• They were convinced of their special mission.

-    They believed the whole world is watching them.

-    America was to become their 'Promised land*. They clung to the tales of the Jews in the Old Testament. Like the Jews. were persecuted for their faith. that they new the one true God. They considered themselves chosen to establish the New Jerusalem - a heaven on Earth. Like Moses (who led the Israelites out of captivity from Egypt parted the Red Sea). Puntan leadera felt they were rescung people from thetr spintual corruption in England. passing miraculously over a Wild aea with God s aid and fashion new Lawa and new forma of government after God a wishes.

-    Considered themsehes mediatora between God and history.

-    Bibie - at every home. knowing it waa a must.

*    1638 - Cambridge Masa - the first pnnt shop and the

first pnnted work - the Bay Psalm Book - religious psalms and hymns. translated from Hebrew to English by colomal preachers and theologians. in verse. intended for group singing in the churches.

-    Puntans wanted education to understand and execute God s will. Harvard (established m 1636) students had to read the Bibie three times a day.

Typical Puritan Sermon;

1.    Biblical quotation and explication - explanation of philosophical and historical detaila.

2.    Doctnne - the lesson or law. drawn from the Bibie.

3.    Application - and proposition referring to the present day situation. some uses.

The biblical past was compared to the present

lohn Winthrooa Sermon: ~A model of Christian Charitv~