The Witch was a thrilling movie set in early colonial America, giving the audience some insight on what it is like to be a Puritan settler. The family this movie follows was banished from the Puritan colony due to a religious dispute. This is interesting because it mirrors why the Puritans came to the new world in the first place: for religious freedom. It also brings up the point that even though the puritans came to America for religious freedom, their new colony was not all religiously free. At the time, every settler was very religious, as you can see by the family in the movie constantly praying to god or repenting for their original sin. In their new “religiously free” settlement, they were banished because of a slight religious difference. The Puritans were about religious freedom, but more so for themselves. People practicing other religions or slightly different versions of their own religion were not very welcome in Puritan society. Whether or not this is a result of their intensity about religion, I am not sure. I think this is an important truth needed to separate American mythology from the truth about the early colonies.
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