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" Religion in Early American Literature (1600-1855)" (5288 words) |
 | The literature still delivered a moral, but more and more, it was left to the reader to supply his or her own moral from the material the author offered. |
| The lessons of the literature are clear: 1) Morton was an immoral man (haughty, individualistic, drunk); 2) the colony did their best to correct him; 3) such correction was to no avail so he was separated from the colony. |
| In American literature, authors were much more comfortable in passing by the first and most convenient answer, in investigating the possibilities, in challenging absolute authority, and in allowing for the inescapable vicissitudes of human nature. |
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