Essay Archive - Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, and J. Cooper
Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, and J. Cooper
Mary Rowlandson's short works displayed the puritanical ways of accepting their
fates, and any obstacles in their ways were tests from God. This way of
thinking and living is personified in her (basically) short narrative tale of
herself being captured by Indians, and her daughter being killed by the savages
by the way.
Jonathan Edwards, a exceptionally intelligent man, able to manipulate people. A
slight step up from Puritanism, the religion that he professed was one in which
a person could only be ....
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