1. American Sense of Self Reflected in Literary Movements
... much different than ours are today. Puritans held on to the doctrine of original sin in which all humans are damned from the start. As the Puritans merged with the pilgrims, they began to embrace the idea of predestination. Predestination is the idea that God chose who would be saved at the beginning of time, so no matter how you lived ... from Romanticism, as it focused more on the use of modern science, rather than superstition, to explain the issues surrounding nature and humankind. The writers believed in progress and self-reliance and understood that progress was made only by takin...
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- Grade Level: High School
