Early colonial Americans faced countless hardships throughout their expeditions that took them all over the world. The reason behind these expeditons was to find new lands in hopes of fomrming a new country for themselves and their people. Many kept records of their journeys and wrote about what they encountered first hand throughout them. John Smith, Thomas Paine and Anne Bradstret were among these individuals and each experienced hardships pertaining to numerous different things. John Smith was the founder of the first English settlement which is recognized as Jamestown. Jamestown is known as the first permanent English settlement because John Smith and his people were the first out of many to actually survive and sustain a life there.
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Author Elizabeth Young suggests, Anne “reveals a struggle between her religious faith and the harsh experiences of living in colonial Massachusetts during the mid-17th century” throughout her poems (par. 1). Anne was only sixteen at the time she married her husband Simon. Nina Baym points out that Anne's husband was an associate of her fathers and that he also shared her father's Puritan beliefs (110). A couple of years after marriage, Anne, her father, and her husband sailed aboard the Arabella with the Massachusetts Bay Company to a new land. They had high hopes of forming a new life for themselves and everyone who accompanied them. The journey was one of the first hardships Anne faced. It was long, and times were very tough for the passengers that many fell ill and died before they even landed ashore. The weather was extremely cold and harsh which made matters even worse. When they landed it only kept getting worse. In the words of Wendy Martin, Anne and her people were "distressed by the sickness, scarcity of food, and primitive living conditions" (par.3). Things were really bad for them that in result, they lost alot of people. Anne was against all of this at first. She didn't see how any of this could be better than where she came from, but was soon convinced it was the way of God and joined the church at Boston (Martin par.3). Another hardship that Anne faced throughout her life was death. Numerous people back then died at a young age, especially during childbirth back then because people weren't as informed about health back then as they are now. Anne wrote a poem in The Tenth Muse titled Before the Birth of One of Her Children. Avery Fischer claims that throughout the poem, "she ostensibly declares that she may die in childbirth and begs her husband to protect the infant"(par.10). Anne was very frightened as to what might happen to her during childbirth. Anne also
Author Elizabeth Young suggests, Anne “reveals a struggle between her religious faith and the harsh experiences of living in colonial Massachusetts during the mid-17th century” throughout her poems (par. 1). Anne was only sixteen at the time she married her husband Simon. Nina Baym points out that Anne's husband was an associate of her fathers and that he also shared her father's Puritan beliefs (110). A couple of years after marriage, Anne, her father, and her husband sailed aboard the Arabella with the Massachusetts Bay Company to a new land. They had high hopes of forming a new life for themselves and everyone who accompanied them. The journey was one of the first hardships Anne faced. It was long, and times were very tough for the passengers that many fell ill and died before they even landed ashore. The weather was extremely cold and harsh which made matters even worse. When they landed it only kept getting worse. In the words of Wendy Martin, Anne and her people were "distressed by the sickness, scarcity of food, and primitive living conditions" (par.3). Things were really bad for them that in result, they lost alot of people. Anne was against all of this at first. She didn't see how any of this could be better than where she came from, but was soon convinced it was the way of God and joined the church at Boston (Martin par.3). Another hardship that Anne faced throughout her life was death. Numerous people back then died at a young age, especially during childbirth back then because people weren't as informed about health back then as they are now. Anne wrote a poem in The Tenth Muse titled Before the Birth of One of Her Children. Avery Fischer claims that throughout the poem, "she ostensibly declares that she may die in childbirth and begs her husband to protect the infant"(par.10). Anne was very frightened as to what might happen to her during childbirth. Anne also