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
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s hatred towards Puritanism is both obvious in him changing his name and in his work, prime examples being The Scarlet Letter and "The Minister's Black Veil". In these two stories his use of older Puritan women of the community and young pretty adulterers greatly reflects his beliefs, being that Puritans themselves are obscenely critical and judgmental of anyone or anything that doesn’t fall under Puritan law and that Puritanism, under the surface, is very corrupt. Of course in The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne throws away these two character niches and introduces Mistress Hibbins, an older witch. This character was designed to blatantly criticize the Puritan religion, without having to use hidden meaning.
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”
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines puritanism as the beliefs and practices of people who follow very strict moral and religious rules about the proper way to behave and live. Puritans based their beliefs off the idea that God was morally right and supreme above all others. In Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House” and Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” it is very evident of this idea that the Puritans had believed. With the access to the Earl’s library, Anne Bradstreet used it to help educate herself. Marrying young, Anne Bradstreet left England and sailed to America with her husband. Enduring the harsh conditions of her new life in America, Anne Bradstreet used her faith in God and poetry to help her survive in her new home. Jonathan Edwards, a child prodigy had experienced a religious experience while at Yale University that had made him want to follow in the path of his father and grandfather and become a minister. After the passing of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards became a pastor and eventually, an influential preacher. Using sermons so powerful and influential, Jonathan Edwards actually helped trigger the Great Awakening, a religious movement
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.
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...
Great pains were taken to warn members and especially children of the dangers of the world. Religiously motivated, they were exceptional in their time for their interest in the education of their children. Reading the Bible was necessary to giving the righteous life. Three diversions were banned in the Puritan society: drama, religious music, and erotic poetry. They believed that these led to immorality. Music in worship created a dreamy state which was not conducive to listening to God.
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
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.
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.
Imagine being in a game where someone has to kill people for the enjoyment of others. AN unwilling young women had to volunteer for a gruesome game after her younger sister was drawn for and she always protected her so she had no choice to volunteer. in this game she has to survive the the other players and the elements. The puritans would would be disgusted with the book,”The Hunger Games” for there dress, sinful lifestyle, and self-reliance.
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.
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...