Comparing Bradstreet And Jonathan Edwards

During the colonization of North America, many settlers decided to escape traditional religion and participate in religions often looked down upon in Europe. Puritan settlers wanted to purify the Church of England and spread their religion to others. Often Puritan’s prayed to God excessively and thanked him [god] for everything. The three works of Puritan literature written by Mary Rowlandson, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards typify greatly on the subject of God.

     Unlike the Chesapeake, the New England colonies were greatly interested in their long-term colonization efforts. A man by the name of John Winthrop led the Puritans, which composed the New England colonies. He believed that their colony was “a city on the hill,” as described in the book of Matthew. The Puritans were a fervent religious colony, where the church was never disputed. There were some historical cases when the Puritan people would speak out and therefore speak out against the church; the story of Anne Hutchinson was just such a case. She held weekly meetings in her home where her and her husband would interpret the bible for their followers. In addition she noted that not all the clergy would be saved and attacked many of their teachings. She was banished and took her husband and seven kids to Road Island where religion was not as strict. The New England colonies survived on exporting lumber, grain and the production of ships. The Puritans wanted to be the model society; they did

Anne Hutchinson was a remarkable colonial woman who first came to Massachusetts in the fall of 1634. She is less remembered for her contributions in the new world as a wife, mother of fourteen, and midwife to many than for her eventual trial and banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I was interested in writing a paper on a colonial woman and chose Anne Hutchinson after a "Google" search turned up a very good review on a recent book about her life. I have been intrigued by the fact that the Puritans came to America to practice their religion freely, yet allowed no freedom to question their

Perhaps the most significant display of the differences during the two time periods would be the reference to God in the writers’ works. As a Puritan woman, Anne Bradstreet is through and through preached to that, the answer to

During the early colonization of the East coast of North America, many groups of people of Europe came to the New World such as the Puritans and Quakers. Both the Puritans, led by John Winthrop, and the Quakers, led by William Penn, were escaping persecution from England but each they had their own views and goals in religion, politics, and ethnic relations. Being on the native land of the local Indians, both Penn and Winthrop had to face issues and negotiations with the Indians. Penn and Winthrop had their own separate approaches to politics but they both sought a more just system than the one in England. After being persecuted, both Penn and Winthrop wanted their people to be free worship, but Penn and Winthrop each had their own

Religion played a very important role in both Native American and Puritan society, though their idea’s differed greatly. The puritans were very religious people, and it mattered more of what God thought of them more than anything and what everyone else thought didn’t matter as much. While the Puritans were the very religious ones, the Native Americans cared more about viewing people for who they were as people than their religious beliefs. Although the Native Americans had their own religious beliefs, the Puritans also thought that the Native Americans needed to “prove themselves worthy”, of their religious beliefs. The Puritans did not believe that the Native Americans had any kind of regulation on their own lives. It was very

Religion was the foundation of the early Colonial American Puritan writings. Many of the early settlements were comprised of men and women who fled Europe in the face of persecution to come to a new land and worship according to their own will. Their beliefs were stalwartly rooted in the fact that God should be involved with all facets of their lives and constantly worshiped. These Puritans writings focused on their religious foundations related to their exodus from Europe and religions role in their life on the new continent. Their literature helped to proselytize the message of God and focused on hard work and strict adherence to religious principles, thus avoiding eternal damnation. These main themes are evident in the writings of

I would like to end my analysis of this poem by stating a paradox that can be found at the end of the poem in lines 11-12. Her love for her husband is on such a level that she wants to preserve it while they live and even after they die. It's amazing to me how much love one can have for a person. The poem's main idea is not just centralized on how much Bradstreet loves her husband, but also on a Puritan woman who takes the initiative to show her love to her husband which was very uncommon back

Their government was to allow no religious freedom, much like that of England. Though the Puritan colonists had left England to flee religious persecution, they continued with the persecution of other religions in their own colony. Nathaniel Ward states, “He that is willing to tolerate any religion, or discrepant way of religion, besides his own, unless it be in matters merely indifferent, either doubts of his own or is not sincere in it…” (Doc F). His words, and the beliefs of the colonists, show that only the Puritan religion was socially acceptable. This resulted in a split between many of the Puritan colonists. When Roger Williams, a prominent Puritan preacher spoke out about religious freedom, he was exiled from the colony. Anne Hutchinson, whose strong religious convictions were also at odds with Puritan theology, was banished from the colony, along with her family and group of followers, and excommunicated from the church. Hutchinson’s treatment was even harsher than Williams’s, however, because she was a woman, and the Puritan’s religious beliefs also governed the treatment of women in the colony. John Cotton, who wrote on the subject of God’s power denoting the civil law, said, “it is good for the wife to acknowledge all power and authority to the husband…” (Doc G). Married women were allowed very few rights in

Europeans migrated and formed the American colonies in the 1600s. Puritans were religious separatists, who left the Church of England and migrated to the American colonies. According to my map analysis, the maps display European influences in North America and show that puritans settled mainly in New England Massachusetts. These Puritans migrated with their own prescribed way of life, beliefs, and doctrines. In their new home, Puritans preached and introduced puritanical doctrines to the New England society. This affected the lives and lifestyles of New Englanders. People were taught to live their life in fear of the wrath of God. People lived according to whatever the church or the ministers instructed out of fear of going to hell. Therefore,

During Anne Hutchinson’s life at Massachusetts Bay, she had come upon a set of beliefs through her own studies and ideas with them help of John Cotton, a minister and theologian. From the reading, it appeared that her beliefs were different compared to the original Puritans. For instance, she believed that salvation only came from faith, enslaving Indians was wrong, and that God came to her through an “immediate revelation” without the need of the clergy. In result, this showed a threat to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Also, it was even more of threat to the colony that a woman, not a man, had this insight along with the separate meetings. In the end, the colony saw this whole situation as a threat, challenge, or even a test against the

The Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century was incredibly intolerable towards any religious ideology that opposed the Puritan authority and when clashed with the ideals of Anne Hutchinson, the event forever marked the beginning of religious tolerance in the New England Colonies. The Massachusetts Bay Colony, like many other towns in New England “banished individuals for such offenses as criticizing the church or government” (Foner 71). As discussed in small group lecture, the community of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had become so hardened in their Puritan values that the sand that made up the community (the people) became glass. The values of the community Anne Hutchinson, a spiritual advisor with her own interpretations of the Bible, held the same view as

Puritans were a form of Protestants in the sense that they rebelled against the Catholic Church, but they also believed the current system still needed more change. Cotton's two main beliefs were the destructiveness of continuing Catholic influence in the Church of England, and the opportunities for success and religious freedom in America. (D. Crawford, p. 26.) The Hutchinson family, which eventually consisted of 15 children, took the long drive from Alford to Boston (England) often on Sundays to hear Reverend Cotton preach. After 20 years of village life in Alford, the Hutchinsons decided to follow their minister to New England in 1634. One main reason for this move was because Anne wanted to feel free to express her increasingly Puritan views under the leadership of John Cotton. (M.J. Lewis, Portraits of American Women, p. 35.) Unfortunately, Massachusetts turned out to be more religiously constrictive than England for Anne, even as a member of the Puritan church.

From the writing at home to the speeches at church, Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are two religious authors during the Puritan Times. A woman poet of a time against woman’s independence and a preacher of full religion devotion, Bradstreet and Edwards’ concept of religion were presented similarly but not alike. Bradstreet’s aspects of religious views were focused upon praising God and loving her family and husband. Edwards’ perspective of his sermons were strongly influenced by religion about praising the Lord or to suffer in hell if not. Bradstreet’s poems, “Upon the Burning of Our Home” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, expresses emotional tone and gratefulness towards God. Edwards’ sermon, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”, indicates the power of God and anger he has towards the non-believers. Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards have strong belief in God, but have two different religious views and personalities of how they envision the Lord.

Bradstreet wanted her poetry to remain private. She accepted her poetry unconditionally, like a mother accepts her child, because if she tried to correct the poem's flaws more flaws appeared. A distinct expression of Bradstreet true love to her