The Era of Puritanism (1564-1660): Society Background
Society Background This period were having some development phases just like the previous period, Elizabethan. The opposite look from Elizabeth period can be seen clearly from a lot of internal conflicts happened at the time. The social society background surely affected the literature side, so you can see that most of literary works at this period were accentuating the depressed and gloomy sides of the world.It is just different with Elizabeth period. But what do you know about puritan actually? Puritanism was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century.If we bring this word back to our era, we can find in any dictionary that puritan means someone who obeys to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures. If we find a group of religious people who think that living lavishly and secularism is not a good thing in life, then they can be considered as puritan. Now, if we go back to the era where this word came...