Puritans

The setting of The Crucible is Salem, Massachusetts in 1692; specifically at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. Salem, a colony in 17th century colonial Massachusetts, was originally part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the largest and most economically important of all the early colonies in New England. Eventually, it evolved into the larger…

A religious fanatic is someone who takes his or her religion to the extreme, letting it control everything in his or her day-to-day life. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay colony are a prime example of this extremist view of religion. They had complete religion-based lives, including the laws they wrote, the way they treated…

When the 16th-century Reformation took place three distinct sectors of reformation developed: the German, the Swiss (including France) and the English. Of these three the weakest and least hopeful was the English. At first opposition was fierce. 277 Christian leaders were burned to death at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary. She earned…

During the seventeenth century, the Puritans landed in New England to form the Massachusetts Bay colony. John Winthrop, the first Governor of the colony, saw the place as a political and religious refuge. He described it as “a city upon a hill. ” In England, the Puritans were not free to practice their faith and…