Anne Bradstreet Religion

Anne Bradstreet was a woman in conflict. She was a Puritan wife and a poet. There is a conflict between Puritan theology and her own personal feelings on life. Many of her poems reveal her eternal conflict regarding her emotions and the beliefs of her religion. The two often stood in direct opposition to each other. Her Puritan faith demanded that she seek salvation and the promises of Heaven. However, Bradstreet felt more strongly about her life on Earth. She was very. She was very attached to her family and community. Bradstreet loved her life and the Earth.

Anne’s Bradstreet’s greatest influence on her writings was religion. As a child she was brought up as puritan therefore she has puritan beliefs that was showed in her poems. However, In some of her writings it seems she was struggled with her belief in God. Just like Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet used a literal device called inversions and also used many religious references. In Anne’s Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of out House, July 10TH, 1666” Anne Says “It was His Own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should Repine.” (122). Here she was making references to her God and realizes that her stuff that was lost in the fire was not

To begin, in 1609 Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem “Upon the Burning of our House”. In this poem Bradstreet depicts a woman losing her house and husband , along with other things she treasured, to fire. According to the poem, Bradstreet says, “And to my God my heart did cry/To straighten me in my distress/And not to leave me succourless.” (8-9) This evidence illuminates that Bradstreet's character has a solid relationship with God and she takes solace in the fact that he will relieve her from all of her stress. In addition, Bradstreet says “I blest His name that gave and took” (Bradstreet 14) To elucidate, the woman in the poem is secure with her belief of God. She embraces and respects God's decision to punish her, knowing that he will take care of her after her life on Earth. To add on, Bradstreet also states, “And did thy wealth on Earth abide? / Didst fix thy hope on mound’ring dust? / To arm of flesh didst make thy trust?” (38-40) To elaborate, Bradstreet is conveying this woman

The 1600s may not seem like a very influential time period. However, two individuals changed that. Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards were two very influential writers to their peers. Anne Bradstreet, author of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon The Burning of Our House”, was very clear about life and kept her religious ways. Jonathan Edwards, author of “Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God”, was a very religious man.

Every time she thinks about it or goes near the property and looks at the land where her house once stood, a flood of memories come back to her mind. In line 25 Anne speaks of a trunk and a chest, which inside contained items that she counted best. She realizes that all of her pleasant things now a ruined and worthless and lie in ashes. There will be no more guests over for a good time, no more meals together with family and friends, no happy conversations or interesting stories to be shared. No more candlelight in the windows, or a bridegroom’s voice heard throughout the home.

In the line, “And to my God my heart did cry to strengthen me in my distress and not to leave me succorless,” Bradstreet shows her religious belief in divine intervention as she places her distress and trust in God and asks Him for strength (Bradstreet 96). In the line, “I blest His name that gave and took,” Bradstreet alludes to the bible verse Job 1:21 which says, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Bradstreet 96). This shows the Puritan devotion to religion through scripture and meditation. It also shows her Puritan belief that all of her belongings belong to God whom has the power to take them away if He so pleases. The line, “Thou hast an house on high erect, framed by that mighty Architect, with glory richly furnished, stands permanent through this be fled,” shows belief in the afterlife with God in Heaven and the goal of religious life (Bradstreet 97). The line, “The world no longer let me love, my hope and treasure lies above,” also shows belief in Heaven and the belief that true happiness and treasure is with God in Heaven (Bradstreet 97). All of these lines show Anne Bradstreet’s Puritan devotion to

Bradstreet displays her Puritan values by almost immediately looking to God after the fire, writing “I blest His name that gave and took,/ That laid my goods now in the dust/ Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just” (14-16). One who goes through the traumatic experience of their house burning down typically would question why it happened to them, but Anne is instantly thankful that God’s providential care kept her safe. She blesses his name, signifying that she still has a devoted care for Him, despite the fact that he took away her possessions and memories. She reveals her belief in the divine mission by saying that it was just for God to take her house, as it was his plan for her. Her beliefs in God’s providential care during the burning of her house kept her hopeful and thankful.

The second quote and third shows that Anne’s differences with her mom blind the love that her mom has for her. The fourth and last quote shows how fortunate she is to have such parents that care and love for her, yet she still is blinded by her love

Anne matures throughout the course of her diary entries, moving from detailed accounts of basic activities to deeper, more profound thoughts about humanity and her own personal nature. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” This shows that Anne matures through the course of her diary, she considers herself as a woman rather than a young girl and sets goals for herself that she wants to achieve. Anne becomes more optimistic even after she feels misunderstood by everyone and feels completely alone.

It was the 1800’s right outside the mountainous Switzerland. Anne still thinks about it everyday. The horrifying picture runs through her head daily. She can still feel the fire on her skin, the smoke in her lungs, and the feeling of her heart breaking as she watched the building collapse on her husband. They all warned her how difficult life would become to raise two kids as a widow. She was determined, she couldn’t give up. She had to show everyone that women shouldn’t be looked down on. Before she knew it, she almost burned the dinner she was cooking.

Views of a Puritan Lifestyle Before the Birth of One of Her Children, by Anne Bradstreet was a poem reflecting about her life and the possibility of death before giving birth. Even though Bradstreet was a devout puritan, her poem had many conflicting ideas on religion, some ideas were for it, and others were against it. During this time period, it was only deemed acceptable if you were a devout puritan who actively participated in your faith, religion, and with God. The puritan lifestyle was different for everyone during this time period; many were devout puritans, some people did not believe in this way of life, or there were other people that were religious during a time of crisis. During part of this poem, Bradstreet reflected on her lifestyle in the puritans’ beliefs and values they had.

Anne was only in her early teen years when tragedy struck for her and her loved ones, and still believed that there was some good in everyone. This could be interpreted into her personality, that she had big hopes and dreams. She must’ve seen a happily ever after for everyone, even that Nazis that have forced her into hiding with no other options at freedom. That, maybe, everyone had hopes and dreams too, and they just did what they needed to do to achieve them. She even said, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” as if people would do what they thought was good- what they thought would improve the world. If you think about it in another perspective, we only call the Nazis bad because they do many things that we think are wrong. But they clearly thought it was right if they were the ones doing it by will. So is there really a good or bad side for anything? Because the bad side will almost certainly be the side that you don’t agree with. Maybe through this new perspective we can understand that Anne thinks that even the “bad” people going against her could just be good people trying to accomplish something, even if she didn’t fully comprehend

Throughout the entire book Anne remains hopeful that her life will get better. Ever through starvation, boredom, and fear, Anne is still hopeful at heart. When the family arrives at the annex and tries to make the best of the situation by saying, “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains” (171). Earlier on in the novel Anne had chosen to focus on the beauty beneath the fog of war and death. She keeps telling herself that There is still beauty in the world. Later in the story Anne makes a mature comment, she said, “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,

Despite her exterior, Anne is in no way unfamiliar with crushed hopes and dreams. Her past is riddled with the harshness of reality in the life of an orphan who had been previously treated poorly by her adoptees. Upon her arrival to Green Gables and consequently Avonlea, Anne's continuous optimism fades at certain points where reality becomes intrusive to the point of shattering her fantasies: “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it? That was why I was so glad when I thought I was going to live here” (Montgomery 46). Anne's optimistic fantasies function to elicit positive feelings within herself, which in turn encourage her to indulge in these fantasies further, resulting in a feedback loop of increasing intensity until her idealistic barrier is broken by external forces operating in reality. Ironically, Anne's situation is dismal to the extent that such fantasies appear a necessity in order for her to maintain her sanity. She mentally constructs safe havens as her coping mechanism because she lacks the agency to determine her own destiny in the real world. Overall, these fantasies are initially a source of survival, followed by motivation, and then later power (Gray 169). When Anne invents her own depiction of Diana's wedding, she becomes caught up in the details and is overwhelmed with emotion, demonstrating her present inability to cope with loss. Anne's fantasies are a method of imposing control on her surroundings, but with evidence of negative consequences on her psyche when taken to the extreme. A primary example involves Anne's episode with the Haunted Woods in which she appears to legitimately conflate her wild fantasies with reality: “Oh, Marilla, I wouldn't go through the Haunted Wood after dark now for anything. I'd be sure that white

Anne is not as good as you think, Anne may seem like a wonderful girl, but in general she is not, in the movie we see her kick another woman on the head because the woman was dying of starvation. We can hear her shout “NO!” at the woman who seems to either die due to the kick in the head or due to hunger. In other words, that woman died due to Anne.