ANNE BRADSTREET

1. What does Bradstreet’s poetry reveal about Puritan ideas of the proper role of women? Note how, in writing her poetry, she both rejects and accepts (Prologue stanza 7) John Winthrop’s standards for women as he revealed them – first, in describing Mrs. Hopkins’s failure to attend “to such things as belong to women” and, second, in his “Speech to the General Court” (“The Woman’s own choice”).

The puritans believed that women should not have the right to voice their opinion. The husbands were the ones who made the decisions in the household and not the women. The women played the role of being home doing house work and taking care of the kids. In John Winthrop’s writing, he says, “he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him” (Winthrop 76). Therefore, men are the dominant where the …show more content…
What similarities are there between the captivity narratives and the novels, soap operas, and movies that have supplanted them in the popular culture of contemporary America?

A lot of captivity novels, soap operas, and movies all have the general idea that involves a woman being kidnapped and held captive. The women feel as if their only way to survive is being rescued by someone. I feel like a lot of TV shows and movies follow this same storyline

6. Discuss Rowlandson’s frequent interpretation of her fate as symbolic of the experience of the Christian who is a captive of the devil and his demons but is chosen to survive (through religion) in order to understand fate and to record life’s adventures for the comfort and edification of others.

While amongst the Indians, Rowlandson was treated as a slave. She was constantly reading her bible and praying to help her get through each day of being held captive. She thought multiple times that she would let herself die of starvation or let them kill her, but Mary just kept reminding herself of bible verses in the back of her head. This gave her comfort and reminded her that the Lord was with