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The Myth that made the America, PURITANS: read "the book" -…

- - - - N. Hawthorne, my Kinsman, Major Molineux
      - Henry Thoreau
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson
      - Melville, Bartleby
  - - - outward success → loss and alienation
      - other side of winning → failure; no fairy tale x immigrant
      - Happy ending → sussess and assimilation (es. Rocky)
        
        hard work, discipline, and individual talent
      - alternative success → gangster / criminal
        power and corruption (es. Godfather, Gangs of NY)
  - - - helper figures → protag success
        
        protagonist => not rich
        
        no bad luck; never become homeless tramps
- - - - a Voyage to plant the
        First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia
      - peaceful interaction with 2 native people
        
        Massasoit → peace treaty in 1621
        
        Squanto → broken English, captivity
      - create Ame as the Promised Land of the Pilgrims
        O.P.P =key text, self-repr. of the Pilg. experience
        
        doubt and disappointment
        in the progress of the Pil
        in realizing the P.L
        
        at first it doesnt look like P.L.
        
        savage wilderness
        (Natives like Columbus)
        
        2° book → failure of Ply
        
        biblical tale of the P.L → promise of future freedom and salvation
        
        God providence in the journey
    - - biblical topos of the heavenly city evokes the exceptionality
        of the Puritans as a model for others
      - difficulties; conflicts with indigenous
        Roger Williams: 1° dictionaty of Native language
  - - - Yezierska, America and I
        
        Russian immigrant
        
        Ame = land of the dreams
        
        money / salary
        
        language
        
        Women’s Association
      - Douglass
        
        slavery
      - M.L.King Jr (1968) → God's will
  - - - Young Goodman Brown
        
        17th-century Puritan New England
        
        Calvinism belief; God unconditional election; sin
        
        Tale of SIN and GUILT
        → critic the ideals of Puritan society
        
        fantasy or reality
      - Salem wicth trails (1692)
      - Rappacini's daughter
        
        ART and SCIENCE
        (experimenting with human nature)
        
        life and death
        
        Garden = Eden + Rapp. = Adam / God / the serpent / artist
        → fatal power of science
- - - - the Diary of Columbus
      - the history of the Indies
        
        Col = chosen by God + providence
        
        discovery vs colonization
  - - - Ame nativism
        
        race (Anglo-Saxons)
      - Goodrich: Col = pirate and slave trader
        Col + Italians = race
        
        progress and civilization
        
        etnic hero (for immigrants)