Anne Bradstreet Character Analysis

Anne Bradstreet’s feelings about her home represent the most material conflict. When her home burned down she wrote the poem to voice these feelings of hers. She describes the awakening to the “shrieks of dreadful voice” and going out to watch “the flame consume” her “dwelling place”. But she comforts herself with good Puritan dogma. The burning of the house is God’s doing and his doings should not be questioned. In looking over the stanzas where she

What is Puritan Literature? Puritan Literature are writings about God and the Puritan Religion. One example of Puritan literature is “Verses Upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet. One day when Anne was sleeping she woke woke up to her house being on fire. Her house was burned to the ground and all her possessions were gone. Another example of Puritan Literature is Jonathan Edwards sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” is about getting people to convert to Puritanism. Those who sin will be thrown into Hell and will feel the wrath of God and be thrown into Hell. “Verses upon the burning of our House” and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” have their differences and similarities.

I think that the love by Anne Bradstreet is different from the love showed by John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor.The first major reason I believe this is because Anne would do anything to be with her husband, while Elizabeth and John were fairly unfaithful to each other. For example Anne said that she wouldn't trade her husband for anything not even a mountain of gold, while Elizabeth and John both confessed as being unfaithful. This detail easily supports my thought that their love is different cause it shows how much more Anne Bradstreet cares. Another big reason is that Anne says they won't live forever but they will live ever, which is her saying they will always be together. A detail is that Anne says the heavens reward the manifold which

In U.S. history the roles of society were decide by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There was many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched informations was hard to find. She was often described as a woman who did not fit the ideal woman mold and she did nothing to force herself into such a mold. Anne Hutchinson is described differently in the textbook that was assigned to our class as well as a few similarities. Anne Hutchinson may

Anne Bradstreet was America's first noteworthy poet in spite of the fact that she was a woman. Both the daughter and wife of Massachusetts governors, Bradstreet suffered all of the hardships of colonial life, was a mother, and still found time to write. Her poem, "The Author to Her Book," is an example of Bradstreet's excellent use of literary techniques while expressing genuine emotion and using domestic subject matter.

In “Verses upon the Burning of our House”, Bradstreet is peacefully sleeping in her bed. She suddenly wakes up by the fire that was consuming her house. After her house was completely burned down, Bradstreet realizes that all of her possessions didn’t belong to her in the first place; they all belonged to God. On line 17, she says, “It was his

Bradstreet's poems reveal that she values her relationship with God, her husband, and children. Despite teetering between questioning the existence of God to fully believing in His existence, she ultimately arranges her life around her belief in God. While her family is important to her, the power she has in words to depict her emotions, questions, family, and God seem to hold a higher importance to her. Bradstreet's back and forth examination between God's existence or lack of would not excessively burden her without her Puritan upbringing. While Godly living dominated this time, but strict Puritan standards probably led to the occasional question of God's existence. However it is unlikely that many Puritans were plagued by God's existence to the extent Bradstreet was. What was most unusual in Bradstreet's writings was her awareness of Puritanism instituting women as second class citizens. Puritan women probably accepted the role of dutiful wife and mother as God's will, but Bradstreet seems to be more aware of the disadvantages that come with being a woman. What surprised me was in Bradstreet's “Prologue”, she writes “Men can do best, and women know it well,”

Miss Brill is a very interesting and unusual character. She talks to fur and she thinks that she can control what goes on around her. She believes the bench that she sits on every Sunday at her local park gives her that power. Every Sunday at her local park Miss Brill sits on her bench and eavesdrops on people who go to the park believing that no one is aware. Eventually she’s pushed back into reality when she’s being mocked by a younger couple. Every Sunday she repeats the same routine, living in her own box. Miss Brill is unusual because she talks to her fur, she stick to a strict routine of visiting the park every day and, she enjoys eavesdropping on people.

Bradstreet doesn’t mourn over losing everything thing she had, because she didn’t have a lot to care about. A normal person would have had a mental break down going crazy about what to do after the damage is done. Bradstreet looked for the good at the end of the storm, she looked for God.

In lines six through nine Bradstreet associates the embarrassment she feels due to her unperfected work to the embarrassment a parent feels due to an irritable child. She feels ashamed that the "errors were not lessened" (line 6) before the work was printed and refers to it as a "rambling brat" who is "one unfit for light" (line 8-9) because her "child" was taken from her before she had time to prepare it to go out into the world. She is

One way Harper Lee develops the theme of fear is through Tom Robinson, he is the man Atticus is defending throughout the second half of To Kill a Mockingbird. While Tom is answering questions during the trial, he says, “I was runnin’ so fast I didn’t know what happened” (260). Tom Robinson starts to run because Bob Ewell finds him and Mayella and he starts yelling. Tom is worried what Bob is going to do at this point, so he runs away from the house. After all of that, Tom is sent to jail. Not too long after, Atticus breaks the news to Scout and Alexandra about Tom's death. He says, "They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started climbing over" (315). Tom, because of this, is shot and killed by guards. It is blatantly

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In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield utilizes Miss Brill’s thoughts and actions and the surroundings to characterize Miss Brill as a lonely character. Mansfield immediately introduces Miss Brill with a very odd scene that shows her conversation with the fur coat. This quickly and effectively establishes the type of person Miss Brill is. As a result, Mansfield suggests that Miss Brill is a lonely and an “abnormal” person to illustrate to the audience how society treats those who are not considered “normal” through the later actions of a young couple.

By writing poems instead of giving time to God, Bradstreet challenged her religious community to the point of disobedience. Implying through her literature, the poet also could not refrain from pleasure, though Puritans did not believe in indulging in pleasures. One of these gratifications was Bradstreet's family, whose love she compared to her love of God. Once again, Bradstreet adored something more than God and her own salvation, suggesting that her human life was more important than heaven. "As a Puritan she struggled to subdue her attachment to the world, but as a woman she sometimes felt more strongly connected to her husband, children, and community than to God" ("Anne

In the poem and the play, two types of love is shown. In my opinion the poem shows more effection and love towards thier partner than the play. My reasoning for believing so, is in the play they state that they love each other, but later on the play states “On the last night of my joy, some eight months past, she used to serve me in my house sir. A man may think a god sleeps, but God sees everything.” That quote proves that proctor in fact committed adultery. If one commits adultry then he or she does not have as much love for one.