The Puritans A Perfect Society

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As time has gone by we have realized that authors mindset and ideas have changed. Jonathan Edwards was a writer during puritanism, and is responsible of the famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, in which we see that everything was more God centralized. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin shows how they drifted away from the idea of everything being centralized around God and we see it is more focused on how one is self-made and values. The role of the authors have changed overtime due to the change of mindset of the society but are similar due to the fact that they find happiness in their beliefs. In puritanism literature, everything is being related to God. To the Puritans a perfect society is created only through conformation