Gossip Girl Imagine having a girl who has ruined your life return to you school to try and ruin it some more. Well in the book Gossip Girl, the main character Blair has a so called “friend” who is trying to have all of the attention on her and will make everyone’s lives miserable to get it. The puritans would oppose the book Gossip Girl because it includes inappropriate clothing, law breaking characters, and the characters living sinful lives. The puritans would ban the book Gossip Girl because of the inappropriate clothing. In the book, the main character Blair and her friends are wearing clothes that would be very frowned on to the puritans. The girls wear dresses that come above their knees. They also wear low cut shirts described in the book. One character called Nate wears sweater vests that are brightly colored. The puritans would wear plain colors such as gray or brown or black. The way the teenage characters dressed would also be frowned on because of the low cut shirts. The puritan girls would wear dresses that covered the whole chest area not revealing anything like the shirts worn in Gossip Girl. …show more content…
The characters in Gossip Girl were doing some underage drinking. On of the sentences in the book states how their parents said, “If the kids are more exposed to alcohol, they’re less likely to abuse it later on.” The puritans would definitely oppose of this book for all of the alcohol references. Gossip Girl also included some references to drugs. The parties the girls go to have a variety of drugs that some of the girls get peer pressured into doing. Another law breaking quality of the characters is getting into parties without their parents permission. The puritans would be sinning if they read a book about these characters and their
Miller Edwards,Hawthorne and korning each show how religion was a sin in puritan cultures and affected many people’s lives that punishment will come when you have disgraced your religion that good is against the devil there is a strict form of puritan. Puritans were dedicated to work to save themselves from the sins in the world. Guilt was a great force in the puritans belief. The people in the story are Puritans a religion often depicted because of its rules and severe punishments to those who sin. The puritans left england to avoid religious persecution they established a society in America founded upon religion intolerance, Up surprising result the church dominates the Puritan culture.
Readers generally characterize the Puritan Townspeople in The Scarlet Letter by their attitudes in the beginning of the novel. When Hester first walks into the scene, most of the townspeople are very harsh and strict in their religions. They believe that adultery is one of the worst sins possible. One unyielding woman says, “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly, there is, both in the Scripture and in the statutebook. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray.'; Although a young woman and a righteous man try to intervene with the angry old women, their voices are never heard. Also, Hawthorne associates ugliness with wickedness; therefore, all of the stingy women are described as being very ugly. They regard her not as a fellow sinner but as a woman so evil that she must be ostracized from her “perfect'; community. They view the scarlet letter that she wears upon her breast as a symbol of her atrocious crime of adultery and nothing more. The women in the beginning of the novel are so quick to pass judgment on others, yet they fail to recognize the sin in themselves. Once they realize this obstacle, the townspeople will become more understanding of Hester’s situation.
Books are banned and/or challenged for multiple reasons. Many books have valued information within them however, still become banned or challenged. The Gossip Girl series is a series that should be banned in certain locations such as a middle school library. The content in the books should not be made available to people under the age of fifteen. Some of the inappropriate content includes: sex, drugs, offensive language, inappropriate attitudes, and scandals.
The Puritans took pride in their adherence to the tenets of their religion, and this brought on a pickle when a female (or anyone for that matter) was voicing their perspectives or disagreeing with it. The men had made it with the goal that the normal lady wouldn't voice her perspectives and remained uninformed and bound. The prosecutors could be any copartner of the woman who the charged conversed with that might tell a male part of the horde. One quality that the men discovered to be exceptionally dangerous was that of attractiveness. Attractiveness was said to have control over the men. The men said to that the most beautiful ladies could command groups the men's psyches and reason them to do things that they might not do at all.
Puritans believed in strict religious dedications, by trying to follow the holy commandment. “The discipline of the family, in those days, was of a far more rigid kind than now.”(Hawthorne 9). They wanted to be considered the holiest of all people because they try to reflect a world of perfection in the sight of God. While they where trying to portray a holy life; however, they where also living a sinful life because they have been judgmental, slandering, uncompassionate, resentment, and forbearing, which are all sinful acts of the bible.
The book turned the "private" into the "political." The avant-garde disturbed the country and critics called the book "wicked," "sordid," and "cheap." Canada declared it indecent and made the importation of the book illegal. Parts of Rhode Island, Indiana, and Nebraska followed suit arguing that the book would corrupt young minds. Wealthy communities banished Peyton Place. To read Peyton Place was to read it in secret and were sometimes discussed only among the closest of friends.
Puritans were very religious and strict on many things, like with government, what jobs were for which gender, and politics. A good quote that kind of explains a puritan life is this, "Puritan women, though they didn’t receive a college education, were generally literate and often well-read. The only respectable female vocation in Puritan America was managing a household. But that “household”
Puritans are generally viewed as religious extremists. Their religious beliefs were extended to all areas of life, and were zealously enforced. This is true for the most part, especially the way they conducted themselves publicly. They believed in public piety to the extent that once, “a young married couple was fined twenty shillings for the crime of kissing in public” (Kennedy, 45). This couple was already married, so one can imagine the people would come to feel that rules like this served no purpose. As Albion’s Seed reads, Puritans “believed that costume should not be a form of sensual display” (140). Their finickiness even included their refrain from wearing the color black because it was too stylish for anyone but the elect. It would be difficult to see how this relates to any scriptural laws of God, therefore, one can imagine how people would grow tired of such pointless restrictions on every trivial choice and action.
Puritanical elements have established itself in the United States from the start of its creation. Puritanical elements which are shown in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are shown in contemporary America. Such Puritanical elements consist of: men such like politicians becoming hypocrites; how when one has sex, they have committed a sin; and the secular power of the Christian Church in American politics. In modern America, religion has become a major party of modern society. It influences American politics, policies, and the way we perceive people.
To understand how the Puritans viewed religion, one needs to look at how they understood their Christian God. The Puritans knew God though the bible and what their ministers preached. They did not believe that God would speak directly to mortals. The Puritan Minister Robert Cushman once stated, “Whereas God of the old [Testament] did call and summon our fathers by predictions, dreams, visions, and certain illuminations…. Now there is no such calling to be expected for any matter whatsoever.” In the Puritan’s time, if God was to speak directly with a mortal, it was thought to be the devil in disguise. One Puritan woman, Anne Hutchinson, was believed to have predictions from God. This infuriated the Puritans because they did not believe in the idea of God giving her visions and thoughts. They believed that Satan was the one giving her these visions and thoughts. Consequently, the Puritans then banished her into the wilderness outside of Massachusetts Bay. This shows that the Puritans treated anyone who did not totally agree with them as an outcast to their society.
By the time Anne Bradstreet was born in the early 1600s, concrete gender roles, enforced by government regulation, church doctrine, and simple tradition, had been firmly in place for centuries. These gender roles dictated that women were little more than extensions of their husbands meant to be passive and servile, to perform basic household duties, and to praise their husbands and God. In the Puritan society, this was further compounded by the focus on humans' innate sinfulness leading back to the original sin of Eve, a convenient female scapegoat. Because of Eve's sin, Puritan men seemed have an underlying mistrust for all women believing that, like Eve, they were greedy for power or at least more susceptible to temptation. Thus, any woman who tried to break free of their defined role as daughter, wife, or mother was seen as a threat to the Puritan religion and the strength of the community. Guided by such harshly misogynistic beliefs, it becomes easier to understand the reasoning behind witch trials; any form of rebellion against church guidelines was sin and could easily spread to corrupt all...
Television is the form of media with the largest target audience as it contains shows, and movies that appeal to people of all age groups. The portrayal of teens in any form of media is tainted, but television is the worst of all media forms in regards to the way teenage behavior is portrayed. “The portrait that society has painted of the average teenager is flawed, displaying unrealistic stereotypes that have become too universally accepted.” (Syed, Sania. The Princeton Summer Journal) The television series “Gossip Girl” is novel based and revolves around a group of snobby, privileged, prep school students that live in the Upper East Side of New York. These teens travel, attend social events, shop at high-end stores, and basically do
It is true that Puritans did not exactly support partying or alcohol. What is surprising is that on rare occasion, it was not uncommon to find Puritans consuming an amount of different types of alcoholic beverages. During feasts alcohol was most-definitely served (Charles). Another thing that comes to mind when talking about the Puritans, is the big first Thanksgiving dinner. Although Thanksgiving feasts likely happened, the Puritans were not the first ones to have these gatherings with the Natives. The first year that sacrificial prayers between Europeans and Natives occurred was 1621, though the first feast was not recorded until 1623 (Gambino). The Puritans did not even make the journey across the Atlantic until 1629; it was their cousins the Pilgrims who made this first bond with the Native American peoples. Once the Puritans did arrive on the American shores, they did have feasts and prayer offerings with the Native Americans, much like the meetings of the Pilgrims and Native Americans (Gambino). A mixture of the Puritan and Pilgrim Thanksgivings are what is generally celebrated today by families across the United States (Thanksgiving History). The Pilgrims and the Puritans were very similar peoples. They both originally came from England. The only difference is that unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans originally stayed in England and tried to purify the Church from within. The
An aversion to cross-dressing has its roots in the Bible: "The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God" (qtd. in Garber, 28). On August 13, 1597 Queen Elizabeth announced a sumptuary (dealing with attire) proclamation which defined the "separate categories for men's and women's apparel: each took the form of a long list of proscribed items of dress with an indication of who alone was permitted to wear them" (Garber, 26). This law sought to prohibit the rise in classes that was transpiring - ambitious ind...
The puritans would despise,”The Hunger Games” due to there dress. In the story the upper class male had very strange dress clothing on. The hairstyles are so strange instead of somewhat long and tied back and dark colors. The male characters in the story had really long and dyed bright colors and would go straight up. The women puritans dress is completely different than from the women's in the books dress the puritans dress had little to no color and showed absolutely no skin on the upper torso and on the lower part of the body. In “The Hunger Games” all the females dress was all color. They also showed so much skin in the upper and lower part of the body. in the puritan daily clothing life there was no color. In “The Hunger Games” all of their clothes had all color there was not