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Comparing Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God By Nathaniel Hawthorne And Jonathan Edwards

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jonathan Edwards wrote two different, but similar pieces of writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “Young Goodman Brown” and Jonathan Edwards wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” “Young Goodman Brown” is about a man taking a walk through the woods and finding something about his faith he didn’t know. “Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God” is about how a he used God in order to scare people into believing. These two writings can be compared by using three things; tone, way of deliverance, and the time. The tone used in “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was serious, but hopeful at the same time. While “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, was more sharp. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses …show more content…

Nathaniel Hawthorne using a story and symbolism, while Johnathan Edwards uses direct words that do not sugar coat anything. Hawthorne uses his story of a man leaving his wife for the night and following a path through the woods. He talks about all of the things that happen on the way. He includes symbolism to describe the people and things. For example, his wife Faith is not only used to symbolize his wife, but also used to symbolize his Faith in religion/God. Edwards uses straight forward words and expressions that are not covered up by a symbol. He tells everyone that they have no chance of going to heaven unless they chose to be saved. If they do not God does not care because he enjoys to see them suffer. Edwards tells everything how it is without holding …show more content…

The time period affected the way that the writings turn out. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was written during the Great Awakening. During the Great Awakening religion was a big deal. Sermons were given in order to convert people’s religious beliefs. Edwards was one of the preachers giving sermons. In this time period they wanted everyone to have a pure belief in God. If this time people would have not occurred when this writing was written, Edwards probably would have gone a different way with it. “Young Goodman Brown” was written during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. This time period affected the story. We know that this time period affected the writing because along the path the “devil” is talking to a witch and Young Goodman Brown was shocked to see what he did not know. The people that Goodman Brown meet along the journey were also from Salem, giving us another reasoning to say that the time period does effect the

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He plys many different rhetorical strategies to convince his listeners to follow his word. He uses strategies including, repetition, appeal to fear, appeal to urgency and problem solution. Johnathan Edwards uses many rhetorical strategies in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". He uses repetition throughout the sermon. The main idea that he repeats is that if you do not love and believe in God, then you are going to hell.

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At this point Edwards has grasped the attention of his listeners by using pathos to pertain to their emotions and feelings. Towards the end of the sermon his tone switches to one of reason in terms of not neglecting his words. He asks a series of rhetorical questions such as those who are unconverted and do not teach their children of Christ that they too will have to witness the wrath of God. As for literary devices such as metaphors, similes, and allegories, Edwards does not disappoint for his use of them most likely whipped a lot of Puritans back into their faith.

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After reading both of the text “The Minister 's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards they’re various similarities and differences can be noted, especially toward the attitudes of sin and guilt. In the story’s the are just portrayed a little bit different. In both stories the feel that sinning is horrible and should be frowned upon. In the story the “Minister 's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne wants the reader to know that Reverend Hooper is wanting to hide his past sins.

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There are many similarities and differences in the devils from “Sympathy from the Devil” by The Rolling Stones and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The similarities are both the song and story talk about an “all powerful” demon messing with other peoples’ lives. Both as well, say it’s mankind's fault for sinning because in the publications, the devil tries to take no responsibility for being the instigator. In the song and story the devil also calls some people who might be seen as role models, hypocrites. Some differences between the song and story include that the song was real life instances where the story might have all just been a dream.

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The meaning and style in " Sinners in the hands of an angry God" and "The ministers black veil" compare and contrast because in Jonathan Edwards sermon in "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" really showed how strong his religious belief was. Edwards sermon was very serious. Edwards purpose was to scare people into changing their ways by making them believe that God was going to condemn them to hell for their sins. The story contains imagery, analogy, hyperbole, and diction. In the sermon Edwards spoke in a very harsh, scary, forceful, judgemental, but yet passionate tone.

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