28 résultats pour "puritanisme"

• puritanisme - religion.

• RELIGION: Puritanisme

• John Winthrop: "A City Upon a Hill" In 1629 English attorney and Puritan John Winthrop was chosen by the Massachusetts Bay Company, an English trading firm, to govern its colony in New England.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Essay

  and her husband is supposed to meet her there. She finds comfort in the person of Minister Arthur Dimmesdale, and let herself be tempted by an act of passion, and love that gave birth to a « sinful » child. Then Hester has to carry the burden of her shame embodied in the Scarlet Letter, and in Pearl. Hester follows what we can call natural laws : Roger Prynne (aka Chillingworth) is described as old, deformed, and a man of science confine in his books, whereas Hester is young...

• The Scarlett letter

  The Scarlet Letter is an american romantic novel of fiction, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered to be his best work. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer from the nineteen century. He is a dark romantic (anti-transcendentalist) which means that he explores the psychological effects of guilt and sin, madness, derangement in the human psyche. The Scarlett letter is marked by this exploration. The st...

• American Literature: Poetry I INTRODUCTION Phyllis McGinley American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.

  Taylor, a poet of great technical skill, wrote powerful meditative poems in which he tested himself morally and sought to identify and root out sinful tendencies. In“God's Determinations Touching His Elect” (written 1680?), one of Taylor’s most important works, he celebrates God's power in the triumph of good over evil in thehuman soul. All of Taylor’s poetry and much of Bradstreet’s served generally personal ends, and their audience often consisted of themselves and their family andclosest frie...

• Oliver Cromwell I INTRODUCTION Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), leader in the English Revolution (1640-1660) and the first commoner to rule England.

  as well as to the abolition of the House of Lords. He was an active member of the High Court of Justice set up for the king’s trial and boldly signed the king’s deathwarrant. For Cromwell, Charles’s execution was a divine judgment against a tyrant. Following the king’s execution, the Commonwealth of England was formed, ruled bya Council of State that included members of the Rump Parliament. For the next two years Cromwell remained a soldier in service to the state. The new Commonwealth had power...

• Oliver Cromwell.

  as well as to the abolition of the House of Lords. He was an active member of the High Court of Justice set up for the king’s trial and boldly signed the king’s deathwarrant. For Cromwell, Charles’s execution was a divine judgment against a tyrant. Following the king’s execution, the Commonwealth of England was formed, ruled bya Council of State that included members of the Rump Parliament. For the next two years Cromwell remained a soldier in service to the state. The new Commonwealth had power...

• Protestantism.

  F England The Anglican Church became the established church in England when Henry VIII assumed (1534) the ecclesiastical authority over the English church that had previouslybeen exercised by the pope. Henry’s motive was to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragón rather than to reform church doctrine, and he imposed severe lawsupholding the major tenets of medieval Catholicism. Under King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth, however, the Anglican Church developed a distinctly Protestant creedthat w...

• Elizabeth I I INTRODUCTION Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

  Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth’s reign, and Elizabeth reacted to them strongly. In 1569 a group of powerful Catholic nobles innorthern England rose in rebellion but were savagely repressed. The northern earls were executed, their property and those of their followers was confiscated, and theirheirs were deprived of their inheritance. In 1570 the pope excommunicated Elizabeth, sanctioning Catholic efforts to dethrone her. In 1571 an international conspiracywas u...

• Elizabeth I.

  Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth’s reign, and Elizabeth reacted to them strongly. In 1569 a group of powerful Catholic nobles innorthern England rose in rebellion but were savagely repressed. The northern earls were executed, their property and those of their followers was confiscated, and theirheirs were deprived of their inheritance. In 1570 the pope excommunicated Elizabeth, sanctioning Catholic efforts to dethrone her. In 1571 an international conspiracywas u...

• Elizabeth I .

  Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth’s reign, and Elizabeth reacted to them strongly. In 1569 a group of powerful Catholic nobles innorthern England rose in rebellion but were savagely repressed. The northern earls were executed, their property and those of their followers was confiscated, and theirheirs were deprived of their inheritance. In 1570 the pope excommunicated Elizabeth, sanctioning Catholic efforts to dethrone her. In 1571 an international conspiracywas u...

• English Revolution I INTRODUCTION English Revolution, also called the Puritan Revolution, general designation for the period in English history from 1640 to 1660.

• William Shakespeare réhabilite Cléopâtre

  -·· - - .. f' tionne justement les scènes de la vie quotidienne - non pas tant d'inspiration égyp­ tienne qu'anglaise d'ailleurs - qui ménagent des plages de repos entre les moments d'extrême tension. Une relecture de la vie de la reine C léopâtre fut, on le sait, en son temps la victime d'une véritable campagne de diffamation orchestrée par Octave César, le futur empe­ reur Auguste. On la décrit comme une femme per...

• Places and Forms of Power- Sum up

  lived in total freedom, they crushed women and the population by spreading rumor of witchcraft and terrified them. Thus, in the darkest periods of the United States, some of their values were not always respected. Besides, this is a fact that recurs at another time in the history of the USA.   This leads me to talk about McCarthyism, an another « Witch hunt », through the movie « Guilty By Suspicion » by Irwin Winkler. The story takes place in the 50', during McCarthyism. The term has its origin...

• Religion JEAN CALVIN

  Jean Calvin catholiques restés secrètement fidèles à Rome,_ ou encore aux anabaptistes qui reprochent à son Egli­ se d'être fort peu ouverte aux pauvres. C'est dans ce contexte qu'intervient l'affaire Michel Servet. Théologien et médecin espagnol, au service de l'évêque de Vienne, auteur d'un ouvrage (De la restitution chrétienne, 1553) dans lequel il nie le dogme de la Trinité, Michel Servet s'est réfugié à Genève, échappant de justesse à l'Inquisitio...

• Comedy

  Socrates suffered in the comedy of Aristophanes. Throughout history, opposition to comedy and laughter has been strongest in societies which emphasize physical restraint, decorum and conformity. Many medieval monastic orders had statutes forbidding laughter. The Puritan and Victorian eras saw many condemnations of comedy and laughter. The more authoritarian the regime, the greater its suppression of comedy. Hitler even set up ‘joke courts' to punish those who made fun of his regime - one Berl...

• Oper - Musik.

  Nozze di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), Così fan tutte (1790) und Die Zauberflöte (1791) eine Synthese aller zeitgenössischen Operngattungen her. 5 DIE ROMANTISCHE OPER In Frankreich, Deutschland und Italien entwickelten sich in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts charakteristische Opernstile, die die Ideale der Romantik widerspiegelten.Paris war die Heimat der grand opéra, einer prunkvollen Kombination aus Bühnenspektakel, Massenauftritten, spannender Handlung, Ballett und Mu...

• the scarlet letter chap 21

  Heste r is n 't m en ta lly w it h t h e P urit a n s a n ym ore . W e c a n a ls o lin k t h ese t w o q uo te s w it h   an o th er s till p .2 11 " ​ I t h ad t h e e ffe ct o f m akin g h er f a d e p ers o nally o ut o f s ig ht a n d   outlin e;. .." ,​ b esid es b ein g li f e le ss, t h e n arra to r t e lls u s t h at s h e's b eco m in g in vis ib le . T his   quo te m ake s u s u n d ers ta n d t h at H este r f o rg ets h ers e lf a n d is n o lo ng er c a p...

• History of Colonial America - U.

  Despite the lack of settlement, New France prospered as a vast fur-trading enterprise. French explorers traveled deep into the North American continent seeking newsupplies of deerskins and beaver pelts. In 1673 French missionary Jacques Marquette reached the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin. In 1681 explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, traveled down the majestic Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. He honored the reign of King Louis XIV (1643-1715) by creating the newcolony...

• J'errais un soir dans l'enceinte de Bhir Mound, délimitée par un talus de déblais.

  En visitant àCalcutta lecélèbre templejaïn,construit auXIX esiècle parunmilliardaire dansunparc plein destatues en fonte barbouillée d’argentouenmarbre sculptépardes Italiens maladroits, jecroyais reconnaître, danscepavillon d’albâtre incrustéd’unemosaïque demiroirs ettout imprégné deparfum, l’imagelaplus ambitieuse quenosgrands- parents auraient puconcevoir, enleur prime jeunesse, d’unemaison closedehaut luxe. Mais enme faisant cette réflexion, jene blâmais pasl’Inde debâtir destemples semblabl...

• Massachusetts - geography.

  mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...

• américaine, littérature.

  le moi, la nature et la mort, se situe entre la tradition romantique américaine et la tradition calviniste de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. 3. 2 La guerre de Sécession américaine et la fin du XIX e siècle Non sans humour, Abraham Lincoln parlait de l’auteur de la Case de l’oncle Tom (1852), Harriet Beecher-Stowe, comme de « la petite femme qui a provoqué cette grande guerre ». Plus qu’une grande œuvre littéraire, ce roman fut surtout l’expression du profond sentiment abolitionniste des Nordistes....

• American Literature: Drama I INTRODUCTION American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.

  American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - geographie.

  Zu den bekanntesten Säugetierarten der Vereinigten Staaten gehören Bisons, Wapitis (amerikanische Rothirsche), Elche, Braunbären (mit den Unterarten Grizzlybär undKodiakbär), Schwarzbären, Pumas, Wölfe, Kojoten und Nordamerikanische Biber; in den Prärien sind Präriehunde verbreitet. Lebten um 1800 noch rund 40 Millionen Bisonsin den Prärien Nordamerikas, waren es 100 Jahre später nur noch etwa 1 000. Heute hat sich der Bestand aufgrund strenger Schutzvorschriften erholt und liegt bei etwa200 000...

• Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - geographie.

  Zu den bekanntesten Säugetierarten der Vereinigten Staaten gehören Bisons, Wapitis (amerikanische Rothirsche), Elche, Braunbären (mit den Unterarten Grizzlybär undKodiakbär), Schwarzbären, Pumas, Wölfe, Kojoten und Nordamerikanische Biber; in den Prärien sind Präriehunde verbreitet. Lebten um 1800 noch rund 40 Millionen Bisonsin den Prärien Nordamerikas, waren es 100 Jahre später nur noch etwa 1 000. Heute hat sich der Bestand aufgrund strenger Schutzvorschriften erholt und liegt bei etwa200 000...