Early American Literature, Puritan New England-opracowanie

Early American Literature
Jamestown (Virginia) 1607-the first settlement
John Smith (1580-1631) “A Description of New England” (1616), “The General History of Virginia” (1624)
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan New England
Predestination (Calvin's idea) - everybody has been already assigned for heaven or hell. God had chosen before their birth whom he wished to save.
Providence - nothing happens without God's will.
Life is just looking for the answer whether we are among those to be saved or those to be damned, the Elect or the Reprobate.
It was absolutely necessary to read (the Bible).
The Puritan World
Every fact was interrogated for its meaning. History is nothing more but progression toward the fulfilment of God's design on Earth - every event could have symbolic meaning.
We should not ask why something happens, but what for, what lesson is there to be learned.
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