Writing Styles The Puritans and the Transcendentalists
There are vast differences between the Puritan World View and the Transcendentalists vision, with one specific difference, the writing style of two of the authors from each of these periods. ... An example of this is evident when comparing the works of a Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, to the writing of Jonathan Edwards, a promoter of the Great Awakening. ... In Jonathan Edward’s “Personal Narrative”, he appears to be writing not to any reader, but directly to God, as a kind of plea from someone longing for and perhaps worthy of being one of God’s Elect. ... The Transcendentalists believed in “duty and unity of man and nature and supremacy of intuition over sense perception and reason as a source of knowledge. ... She attempts to explain to women via her writing that they should not wait until they are given, (by men), the chance to succeed, they should take that right because they deserve it. ... They were called Puritans and “thought of themselves as soldiers in a war against Satan”. These early puritans lived theirs lives to fulfill God’s purpose and believed that “God choose freely whom he would save and those he would damn eternally”. Although this first generation of Puritans had a strong commitment to the church, the later Puritans lost their forefather’s enthusiasm toward the church and religion. ... ” Who but God can he be possibly communicating with and writing to?