Anne Bradstreet Research Paper

Feminism is still going on in today's society. Women are still fighting to gain equality. During Anne Bradstreet's time, women had to live up to the Puritan rules in their everyday life. They had to do the duties of woman and nothing else (Blackstock). Anne Bradstreet's father, Thomas Dudley, wanted his daughter to be well-educated and her works proved it (Blackstock). They published her works under her brother-in-law name because in the Puritan society, it was offensive to write poetry because poetry was creative (Blackstock). He was in the new world and it would have taken more time to get it published because he was in England, so he published it without her consent (Blackstock). In several of her works, she came to realize that men and women have different roles to play in the Puritan Society. …show more content…
She wanted women and men to have equal right and opportunities when it comes to certain things. She wanted people to see that women were capable of achieving anything. Living in the Puritan society, she did not like the fact that they had stereotypical idea that a women is inferior to men during that era (Blackstock). The role of a Puritan woman was to spend time cooking, cleaning, attending to their husband every need, and take care of the children (Furey).According to Ivy Schweitzer article “Anne Bradstreet Wrestles with the Renaissance” stated that even though it was a crime that women who wanted to write had to hide it because the Puritan people believed that if a woman writes then is endangering the society, they still were writing (Schweitzer). Anne Bradstreet was a thinker when it came to her writings (Furey). She wrote about her feelings when it came to the love for her husband, or how she felt about the society (Furey). Bradstreet believed that women were being treated unfairly; she believed they should be educated, and they should be able to write because they were not endangering