Pevetosp2010
Haley Peveto
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In this project I will be focusing on the Puritan religion and how it affects women. This will show what the Puritan religion expected of women and how they should act and feel. Two examples I will focus on will be Anne Bradstreet's burning of our house, and Mary Rowlandson's captivation. Puritan religion expected the people, especially women, to repress their emotions or opinions. Puritans also believed all sins should be punished, which played a large part in the Salem witch trials.
Anne Bradstreet: Poet in Search of Form
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In the Puritan culture,
which Bradstreet lived in, they were expected to act in a certain manner, and
therefore when she lost everything in the fire in her poem, Upon the Burning of our House, she wasn’t able to openly grieve
about it. She, as a Puritan, believed that we should not place our wealth in
worldly possessions but put our wealth in God. She begins to feel sad over the things she has lost, but quickly changes her mind because grieving over these possessions is a sin for Puritans. This shows how Puritan women were expected to act, even though all her writings, clothing, and her families memories were burned in the fire she was expected to not be phased by it at all, or she would be sinning.
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During King Philip's war Lancaster came under attack by the Indians, where Mary Rowlandson and her three children were captured. For more than eleven weeks she and her children were forced to accompany the Indians as they fled through the wilderness. After her return, Rowlandson wrote a narrative of her captivity recounting the stages of her odyssey in distinct removes or journeys. She showed how through all her trials she kept her trust in God just like a Puritan women should. Rowlandson' book helps the reader understand the Puritan mind, and the captivity she experienced.
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To Represent Afflicted Time: Mourning as Historiography
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