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Why does Edwards believe that some of his congregation do not fear Hell?
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Edwards delivered his famous sermon during a revival movement intended to reinvigorate church attendance and bring more converts into the faith. He recognized that people were drifting away from church and relegating their faith to the background of their lives. The entire sermon is designed to shock listeners and instill a sense of urgency in their return to religion.
Edwards likely believed that Hell was an abstract notion to many of his listeners, and so he loaded the sermon with horrifying sense imagery to try to convince the congregation that Hell was a concrete place of eternal tortures.
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(C) Belief in the power of the individual is one of the conventions of Romanticism.
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Romanticism’s one convention is the belief in the power of an individual. This concept of individualism has always fascinated the romantics. They believed that human beings are always in a constant search of their self and only come to a conclusion when they find the identity of their true self.
Famous romantics like Rousseau often commented on this concept classifying it as “antinomy”. Also Keats’ poems have a lot of content on individuality which proves that famous romantics believed individualism as an important convention of romanticism.