Quinn Anderson
English III
Ms. Fordahl
14 April 2014
Utopian Promise
We started talking and learning about the Utopian Promise and the time period is during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During these centuries, the Quakers and the Puritans were coming to the "New World" to create Utopian societies that would fulfill God's will on Earth. When they talk about the "New World" they mean the United States. The Quakers believe in taking in other people's beliefs as where the Puritans boot out the other people's beliefs. The Quakers were a society of friends. The Puritans came here because they wanted to purify the church.
In the story "The General History of Virginia" John Smith talks about how he left England to become a soldier for hire and occasional pirate. Smith's military experience made him a good leader in the eyes of the Virginia Company. The group of investors hoping for huge profits from their New World venture. They hired him to help run the Jamestown colony. Everything in Jamestown started going downhill almost immediately after Smith's arrival. The first president died and the next two were deposed. Smith took control of the colony shortly after. Smith was shot in his thigh and had many arrows that stuck in his clothes but no great hurt, till at least they took him prisoner. Powhatan wanted Smith dead. Pocahontas the King's daughter ended up stopping her father from killing Smith. Later Powhatan sent Smith to Jamestown. He said they were now friends.
The pilgrims arrived in a good harbor. They had no friends to welcome them in and no houses. They delt with a lot of bad weather. The met the Indians which they feared for awhile. It seemed as if the Indians wanted to start violence. Eventually after two or three months half of their company died. Some causes of death were due to no house living and being infected with the scurvy. Two or three a day died. Samoset was a brave Indian who was brave enough to go talk to the pilgrims. He introduced them to Squanto another Indian who could speak better English. They eventually became friends. They made peace amongst eachother. The Indians helped the pilgrims find food and shelter to survive. Squanto never left the pilgrims until he died. When Thanksgiving came around by this time all the pilgrims that were left were healthy and back to strength. They had plenty of food and other good things.
In the story "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards basically gives what he thinks is a sermon. The reason why people who sin do not go down to hell is because they ask God for forgiveness. He thinks that everyone who sins should be sent to hell. He gives this sermon and it makes you think what if my pastor gave a sermon and just because maybe I sinned once or twice she told me that I would being going to hell because of that. I would definitely be worried and wouldn't know what to say back. I don't even know if I would go back to church. He basically doesn't believe in second chances. He says, "that we have an opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God."
Arthur Miller wrote the play to warn against mass hysteria and to plead for freedom and tolerance. There's a testimony of a church member who claimed to have seen a person's spirit performing witchcraft. That was enough to sentence the accuse to death. Miller differs from the other authors that we read because he is telling more of a intense story I would say. Whereas, Smith and Bradford told stories about them and their past but wasn't really intense and scary. Their stories were more sad. Edward's story on the other hand was scary to me. How his differs from Millers is that Edwards doesn't even tell a story about his life. He mostly talks about a sermon that was given and how people who have sinned should be sent to hell then switches it up at the end to make the readers less intimidated. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-communist activity in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, irrelevant evidence. The Crucible would be based on McCarthyism. The Salem witch trials started in Massachusetts. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty of them were executed. I think that "The General History of Virginia" and "Of Plymouth Plantations" go together because they both describe the lives of the main characters in the story. The "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and "The Crucible" go together because they are both dark stories and talk about myths. I personally don't really know how the first two stories lead up to the two of these stories just because of the way they were told. I thought all of the stories we read were very good.
In the story "The General History of Virginia" John Smith talks about how he left England to become a soldier for hire and occasional pirate. Smith's military experience made him a good leader in the eyes of the Virginia Company. The group of investors hoping for huge profits from their New World venture. They hired him to help run the Jamestown colony. Everything in Jamestown started going downhill almost immediately after Smith's arrival. The first president died and the next two were deposed. Smith took control of the colony shortly after. Smith was shot in his thigh and had many arrows that stuck in his clothes but no great hurt, till at least they took him prisoner. Powhatan wanted Smith dead. Pocahontas the King's daughter ended up stopping her father from killing Smith. Later Powhatan sent Smith to Jamestown. He said they were now friends.
The pilgrims arrived in a good harbor. They had no friends to welcome them in and no houses. They delt with a lot of bad weather. The met the Indians which they feared for awhile. It seemed as if the Indians wanted to start violence. Eventually after two or three months half of their company died. Some causes of death were due to no house living and being infected with the scurvy. Two or three a day died. Samoset was a brave Indian who was brave enough to go talk to the pilgrims. He introduced them to Squanto another Indian who could speak better English. They eventually became friends. They made peace amongst eachother. The Indians helped the pilgrims find food and shelter to survive. Squanto never left the pilgrims until he died. When Thanksgiving came around by this time all the pilgrims that were left were healthy and back to strength. They had plenty of food and other good things.
In the story "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards basically gives what he thinks is a sermon. The reason why people who sin do not go down to hell is because they ask God for forgiveness. He thinks that everyone who sins should be sent to hell. He gives this sermon and it makes you think what if my pastor gave a sermon and just because maybe I sinned once or twice she told me that I would being going to hell because of that. I would definitely be worried and wouldn't know what to say back. I don't even know if I would go back to church. He basically doesn't believe in second chances. He says, "that we have an opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God."
Arthur Miller wrote the play to warn against mass hysteria and to plead for freedom and tolerance. There's a testimony of a church member who claimed to have seen a person's spirit performing witchcraft. That was enough to sentence the accuse to death. Miller differs from the other authors that we read because he is telling more of a intense story I would say. Whereas, Smith and Bradford told stories about them and their past but wasn't really intense and scary. Their stories were more sad. Edward's story on the other hand was scary to me. How his differs from Millers is that Edwards doesn't even tell a story about his life. He mostly talks about a sermon that was given and how people who have sinned should be sent to hell then switches it up at the end to make the readers less intimidated. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-communist activity in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, irrelevant evidence. The Crucible would be based on McCarthyism. The Salem witch trials started in Massachusetts. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty of them were executed. I think that "The General History of Virginia" and "Of Plymouth Plantations" go together because they both describe the lives of the main characters in the story. The "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and "The Crucible" go together because they are both dark stories and talk about myths. I personally don't really know how the first two stories lead up to the two of these stories just because of the way they were told. I thought all of the stories we read were very good.
