The Differences and Similarities between Native American and Puritan Literature Native American and Puritan Literature have their own distinct culture and traditions. They also incorporate it into their literature. Puritan literature was mostly passed down through sermons, diaries, journals, and poems. Native Americans were indigenous people of the Americas and their literature was traditional oral and written. Both Native Americans and Puritan Literature have similar elements of culture, such as religion, beliefs, and morals. Even though they share common ideas, they are quite different, for example, their stories were passed on differently. Native Americans are indigenous natives of the Americas. Their literature incorporated culture with a written language and oral tradition that captured their ideals. For example, stories, …show more content…
First of all, each culture believed in a God. The Native American religion believed that God created the world with his own hands. The Puritans believed in a similar concept, in which God made the earth. Both believed that God is a single, distinct leader, who has placed us on this earth to please him. They persuade it through their literature. Both cultures believed that mankind is both from Earth and nature. They both believed that doing well in this world would allow passage to a greater place. Though they might have had a lot in common, they had many differences. For example, Native Americans passed down their stories by word of mouth from generation to generation through stories, songs, and poems. Puritans passed their stories on differently than the Native Americans did. The Puritans passed their stories on through sermons, religious stories, narratives, diaries, journals, and religious poems. Another difference is that the Puritans based their literature on the Bible, church, and religion, and the Native Americans based their literature on nature, earth, and
Early Colonial American society during the 17th and 18th centuries is characteristically bound by strong religious beliefs of Christianity. The New England inhabitants from Britain, who have established their respective colonies in the Americas, have brought with them their cultural histories; thus, this culture had been further developed in the new country to strengthen its new identity and culture as the American society. In colonial America, two religions dominated its cultural history: Puritans on one hand, and the Quakers, on the other. Puritanism was borne from the creation of a religion that seeks to fuse and at the same time,
The Puritans sought to create a society that was more pure and righteous than the corrupt society they believed existed in England. The Massachusetts colonies were founded by Puritan separatists who left England in search of religious freedom. They believed that the Church of England was too hierarchical and corrupt, and they wanted to establish a society that was more focused on individual piety and a direct relationship with God. The Puritans emphasized education and literacy, and they believed that all members of the community should be able to read and interpret the Bible for themselves.
Native Americans where formally living in the cabins and they took deer or killed an enemy that spoke another language not right and they had hunters and warriors. And the Europeans had more of the dramatic and more sensitive thing going on in the story and helped save a little boy out of the woods and it had more violent settings
The first contact between the Natives and puritans was for trade and diplomacy only. The puritans though that they needed to teach the native their religion, but they where still too outnumbered by the natives to try that until after the war. The puritans were very hostile and they did not let the natives into their colonies. They were racist and they even robbed some of the natives graves. The natives were relatively chill, but they did have their faults, considering people just came and invaded their land.
They came in many ships and outnumbered the pilgrims. The puritans have more of a coherent understanding of the relationship between the church and the state and they give importance to education and religion. As opposed the pilgrims who wanted to completely start over and remake the church the puritans chose to repair what was already established. They wanted to purify the church from the inside out. Therefor they became known as the puritans.
According to the text the Puritans believed that the reformed church had to be very different from the catholic church and they centered around the bible. They “believed that faith, not works, was the key to salvation.” That is what the Puritans believed. The girls caused people to be tested to see if they were a witch or not.
The puritan community were highly religious and believed in the sense of purity. They also believed that if they didn’t lead a part of righteousness and acted sinful or wanted to test the existence of god, those people were tormented and Satan would
Puritans are a people with a very strong belief in both God and the power of God. When people see power, they interpret it in different ways. Some know of power through anger and impulse, while others see power through the goodness the powerful one shows. Although Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are both puritan poets, their writings convey mainly different, though sometimes similar, views on God because they have different perceptions of His will and the use of His power. Anne Bradstreet listens to and accepts anything that God wishes, and that is shown through her poem Upon the Burning of my House.
The narrative offers an account which can be used to describe the particularly puritan society based on the ideals of Christianity and the European culture. It offers a female perspective of the Native Americans who showed no respect to the other religious groups. The narrator makes serious observation about her captors noting the cultural differences as well as expectations from one another in the society. However, prejudice is evident throughout the text which makes the narratives unreliable in their details besides being written after the event had already happened which means that the narrator had was free to alter the events to create an account that favored her. Nonetheless, the narrative remains factually and historically useful in providing the insights into the tactics used by the Native Americans
The Puritans were the ones to find the New England Colonies. The Puritans got that title because they were trying to purify the Anglican church. The Puritans believed that by settling in the Americas their life would be better.
Religion influenced the government of the Puritans. They believed that they each had their own boundaries or power given by the Lord (Doc H). Puritans wanted the church and government to intertwine and aid one another, creating a stronger bond. In addition, the Puritan’s emphasis on religious conformity and the attainment of land for their model society led them to engage in wars with neighboring Indian tribes. For instance, William Bradford fought with Pequot tribe in the Pequot War, believing that God is the source of their victory and therefore praise him (Doc D).
Quite simply put, Europeans viewed Africans and Native Americans as inferior to themselves. They were considered to be heathens and barbarians by the Europeans. And, at least initially, they were not Christian. It was believed that Europeans could save both Native Americans and Africans not only spiritually but also economically and socially. This type of attitude also most likely made it much easier for the Europeans to discriminate and exploit them.
In document F it says “There is confined unto the atmosphere of our air a vast power or army of evil spirits under the government of a Prince (Satan) who employs them in a continual opposition to the designs of God.” They believed in God and that the evil spirits and witches are under the influence of Satan. The Puritans believed that the bible was true. In Document H says “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” The Puritans were
Compare and Contrast the Native American Culture Introduction The Native Americans were the original owners of the United States of America. However, due to the population increase in Europe, the European migrated to America in seek of land for farming, settlement, and spread their religion (Desai, n.p). The two communities lived together and interacted with each other.
The world contains a massive variety of different religions with different branching denominations, within the U.S. and without. This can be due to minor differences such as an alternate view on the importance of rituals, or it can be due to something major like clashing views on God. Sometimes, even within one religious group, there are views that butt heads and challenge each other. In terms of Puritanism, specifically centered around the Calvinist ideology, there were two men whose ideas on God differed greatly. These men were John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards, who wrote A Modell of Christian Charity and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God respectively.