Utopian Promise responses

1.The Puritans were a very religious group of people. Their way of life, their rules, and anything and everything that they do, the Puritans link to god. The Puritans believe that they were doing the work of god and if they lived a selfless and godly life then god would forgive them for their sins. As said in the New England Primer, 1691" Thy life to mend, this book to attend" the Puritans believe in order to fix their life of sins you must follow the bible. As listed by document 1 the Puritans basic rules for life is to not say bad, not to do bad, and not to hear bad.


2.According to these quotation the puritans believe that women and children should not have free will. In document 3 John Robinson says, "children's wills and willfulness be restrained and repressed." The Puritans seem to believe that children should be in the parents control and should as told and never question. John Robinson says that it is the parents duty to make sure from the beginning that their children don't develop a mind of their own. The puritan's view of women is that god gave man absolute power over their female.


3. the Puritans saw every clue to be the Christ's return. Every event that in their lives they related to passages in the Old testament. As said in the video, when crossing the Atlantic ocean the puritains thoughts of it as crossing the red. When they suffered they thought of it as trials of Joe. When celabrating the winning of a battle they thought of Daniel survivng the lions den. they saw the bible as a book of clues to future event. they believed it was their job to bible and prepare for christ's return. The Puritans thought that they would become the choosen people for following the bible.

4. puritanism is a repressive, intolerant moral and religious code. they have a standard set of rules and are intolerant when broken. For all most every crime the sentence is the stocks. The puritans use fear and humility to control people. When coming from england John Winthrop used fear to make the people on board to follow his way. Puritanism doesn't encorage , it represses change and new ideas. That is why they wanted to change the Native Americans and made sure new generations will not change their way of life. They believed that the Puritan way was the only way to live life.