ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The American concept of limited government stems from the Puritan community. Puritans believed that no single person or group of people should be trusted to run the government. The Puritan emphasis on education led to an American school system whereby everyone is taught reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Convictions of the Puritans helped shaped the American character. Such convictions included moral, ethical, and religious. There were approximately twenty thousand English Puritans in New England by 1640. The Puritans prospered in business while still keeping their spiritual life deeply connected.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritans spread their work ethic in America as well, ultimately helping to spur the development of American capitalism. The Puritan work ethic has been considered by many to be the antithesis of Marx’s historical materialism, which states that religion is a product of economics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Puritanism, a religious movement toward cleansing the church of its Catholic ties, that had a profound effect on writing of the time. Authors of the period were characterized by first-person works that were heavy on simplistic language and sentence structure as well as religious references and Biblical allusions.