Pros And Cons Of The Puritans

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After analyzing the assorted Puritan texts, including The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, it can be easily seen that the Puritans attempted to legislate morality in many of their laws. These ideas, established in pre-18th century time after the first Puritan unrest (history.com), flowed down through the progression of countries and societies. Today, by simply ‘reading between the lines,’ it has become evident that those Puritan viewpoints have been transported through time and are still present, even in the structure of certain modern laws. However, the expansiveness of the change that has occurred since the initial laws being instated, it might be time that they get revised. Although there are some well-structured and quite successful laws …show more content…

By comparing a basic Puritan to a basic Christian (of which 2.2 billion people or 32% of the world’s population is (Harper)), it becomes clear that the Puritan culture shares a large number of similarities. One of their bigger vexations is their arguments over public nudity. Depending on its usage, nudity may be considered a problem. Puritans of clean origins viewed public indecency as a negative influence; however, it was never actually written into law that a person could not walk around outside naked. The Puritan culture did, however, incorporate some forms of nudity into publications or plays (The Outlook). Outside of that type of judgment, nakedness was looked down upon harshly. Ever since the invention of the internet, many forms of nudity have swarmed around everywhere, becoming so massive that it could become accredited as a ‘public’ form of physical vulgarity. Evolving from simple ‘wink, wink’ jokes to full blown obscene movies, public nudity has scarred much of humanity. Many people would argue that nudity in a complete sense should be eradicated or at least ‘filtered.’ The Puritan culture almost had the perfect answer to our problem with such offensive matters: limit it by law. Almost as simple as activating ‘SafeSearch’ on a web browser, enforcing governmental law on a touchy topic would possibly solve the

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