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What is most important to Bo Florin, Stockholm University is the question of film style when looking at Victor Sjostrom directing in the United States as Victor Seastrom, the films an inevitable transformation from his having established the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film with director Mauritz Stiller. It might also be irresistable, Sjostrom having made two films with actress Lillian Gish, to evaluate the work Victor Sjostrom to that of D.W. Griffith, who, during 1926 was filming "The Sorrows of Satan" with Carol Dempster. Peter Cowie, in his volume Swedish Cinema" goes so far as to write that of the films he directed in the United States only the two films Victor Sjostrom made with Lillian Gish are of "lasting importance". Cowie explains that even Sjostrom himself felt that the films he directed after the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film would in fact be "transformations". "Everyone praised the visual beauty of the film, but many in it a decline of Sjostrom's vitality. 'Det Omringade huset' (1922) and 'Eld omboard' were disappointing, and in 1923 Sjostrom left for Hollywood on account of the lucrative offer from M.G.M and because of an urgent need within himself to find the magic for producing pictures of an international appeal."
Puritanism itself can be reflected in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Sewall, Edward Taylor, Michael Wigglesworth and Cotton Mather, The Puritan Errand, the Scarlet Letter having taking place during the two decades after 1630 when most of the oldest cities near Boston were first incorporated.
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