LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Versus from the Burning of our House
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Verses upon the Burning of our House at Wikisource. Bradstreet feels guilty that she is hurt from losing earthly possessions. It is against her belief that she should feel this way; showing she is a sinner. Her deep puritan beliefs brought her to accept that the loss of material was a spiritually necessary occurrence.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lines 13-20. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust.
Detailed explanation-3: -And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice. That fearfull sound of fire and fire, Let no man know is my Desire.
Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker, generally taken as Bradstreet herself, grieves the loss her home and all her material possessions, but also argues that this tragedy was God’s way of teaching her a spiritual lesson about the value of piety and faith.