Features of Puritan age
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* The main characteristics of the Puritan Age:
* Introduction
The literature of the seventeenth century may be divided into two periods - The puritan age or the age of Milton (1600-1660) which is further divided into the Jacobean and Caroline periods after the names of the ruled James I and Charles I who rules from 1603 to 1625 to 1649 respectively and restoration period or the age of Dryden (1660-1700).
* Features of the Puritan Age:
In puritan age new spirit came to the society, A literary mission started from Renaissance age was accomplished in puritan age. The salient Features are;
* The writers of puritan ages followed the paths of the great Renaissance writers.
* The spirit of science popularized by great men like Newton , Bacon.
* In literature the spirit influses itself in the form of criticism which was truly the creation of puritan age.
* In this period people took stock of what had been acquired.
* People classified, analysed and systematized many things which were having no importance before that.
* English language was started being used as the medium for instruction and for storing the data and for convening facts.
* Satire and Irony got fame in puritan age, individually as well as on collective basis.
* Readers had become critizers and asked for the facts and figures. So that they may judge and can take sides in the controversial matters.
* Puritanism is considered as the second greatest Renaissance.
* Rebirth of the moral nature which followed intellectual awakening of Europe in 15th and 16th century.
* Puritan movement stood for the liberty of people of Europe.
* There was an introduction of morality and high ideals in politics.
* Puritan had two perspectives; Personal righteousness and Civil and religious liberty.
* It aimed at making people free and honest.
* In puritan age John Milton and Thomas Cromwell fought for the religious liberties of people.
* With the passage of time Puritanism became the movement against the king which stood for the freedom of the society.
* Puritans was the name given to the people who advocated certain changes in the form of the worship of the reformed English Church under Queen Elizabeth.
* Impact of the Civil War:
An estimated 200,000 English soldiers and civilians were killed during the three Civil wars by fighting and the disease spread by armies; the loss was proportionate, population wise to that of World War I .
In 1653 , Oliver Cromwell was installed as Lord protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and tried to consolidate broad support behind the new republican regime amid the continued growth of radical religious sects and widespread uneasiness about the new standing army.
After Cromwell's death in 1658, He was succeeded as protector by his son Richard who abdicated just eight months later. With the continued disintegration of the republic, The larger parliament was reassembled and began negotiations with Charles II to resume the throne. The triumphant king arrived in London in May ,1660 beginning the English Restoration.
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