Category: Anne Bradstreet
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Challenging Fears and Expectations in Early America: Critical Analysis of The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
What have you done recently to conquer your fears? Maybe, stick your hand in a jar of spiders? Personally, mine was blindfolded indoor rock climbing which really helped me challenge my fear of heights. However, not everyone can easily accomplish this, but what if you could? French surrealist writer and poet Rene Dumal once said:…
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Thematic Review of Anne Bradstreet’s, Olaudah Equiano’s and Phillis Wheatley’s Works
In Wheatley’s ‘On Being Brought From Africa to America’, it seems like she is saying that her voyage from Africa to America is a blessing. She feels that being in America has given her an opportunity to find and love God, and that no matter their captors beliefs are, in the end they will join…
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The ‘Hysterical’ Author: Tracing the Gendered Mental Landscape
Female authors throughout different historical, cultural and social contexts have written extensively in response to their contemporary/immediate reality and each has addressed the woman question in her way. Although these responses vary in nature, form, and content, a common factor in all of them has been a reactionary instinct. Female writers react to ideas surrounding…
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Analysis of Puritan Thought and Ideology on the Example of Anne Bradstreet’s and Edward Taylor’s Works
Puritans sought reform from the Church of England, due to its likeness to the Roman Catholic Church. They wanted to separate the church to be autonomous. Therefore, to escape persecution from England, they escaped to the new land. Because they were some of the first authors in a newly founded America, they brought along their…
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Anne Bradstreets and Nathaniel Hawthornes Views on the Developing Puritan Society
In 1630, the Puritans made their initial voyage to America, they possessed high goals and ideals in the hope that their future settlement at Massachusetts Bay would become a city upon a hill. The utopia settlement envisioned by the Puritans was supposed to serve as an example for the rest of the world in what…
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Challenging Fears and Expectations in Early America: Critical Analysis of The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
What have you done recently to conquer your fears? Maybe, stick your hand in a jar of spiders? Personally, mine was blindfolded indoor rock climbing which really helped me challenge my fear of heights. However, not everyone can easily accomplish this, but what if you could? French surrealist writer and poet Rene Dumal once said:…
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Thematic Review of Anne Bradstreet’s, Olaudah Equiano’s and Phillis Wheatley’s Works
In Wheatley’s ‘On Being Brought From Africa to America’, it seems like she is saying that her voyage from Africa to America is a blessing. She feels that being in America has given her an opportunity to find and love God, and that no matter their captors beliefs are, in the end they will join…
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The ‘Hysterical’ Author: Tracing the Gendered Mental Landscape
Female authors throughout different historical, cultural and social contexts have written extensively in response to their contemporary/immediate reality and each has addressed the woman question in her way. Although these responses vary in nature, form, and content, a common factor in all of them has been a reactionary instinct. Female writers react to ideas surrounding…
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Analysis of Puritan Thought and Ideology on the Example of Anne Bradstreet’s and Edward Taylor’s Works
Puritans sought reform from the Church of England, due to its likeness to the Roman Catholic Church. They wanted to separate the church to be autonomous. Therefore, to escape persecution from England, they escaped to the new land. Because they were some of the first authors in a newly founded America, they brought along their…
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Anne Bradstreets and Nathaniel Hawthornes Views on the Developing Puritan Society
In 1630, the Puritans made their initial voyage to America, they possessed high goals and ideals in the hope that their future settlement at Massachusetts Bay would become a city upon a hill. The utopia settlement envisioned by the Puritans was supposed to serve as an example for the rest of the world in what…