Anne Bonny

Is Anne Bradstreet rebelling against traditional Puritan/Pilgrim values? Anne Bradstreet was a premiere poet in young America and paved the way for both past and modern day poets to express themselves with limited fear of the consequences. Despite living in a community that was not too tolerant of anything outside the social norms, she composed elegant poetry that often challenged the minds, and sometimes broke taboo. Her versatility and ability to produce elegant and relatable poetry…

In A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More was portrayed as a generally sincere and virtuous man who stuck to his conscience, More was virtuous in ways such as having a good reputation and being respected throughout England,who did what he believed to be morally right. As the play progresses and More’s beliefs come into contradiction King Henry VIII’s will, More’s morals come into question, and it becomes clear that what More thinks is moral and amoral is his own personal opinion. More is caught…

cover design of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, I predict that Anne Frank at some point would perish because of the dated picture of herself on the front of the book. The title is of a young girl which, I believe, would be named differently if Anne had lived through the specific period or the way the cover appeared with an aged aesthetic comprised with it. Biography Annelies Marie Frank, best known as “Anne Frank” was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne was four years…

Beginning with Bradstreet’s poem, the first difference in the way she approaches her audience versus how Stockton approaches hers is the tone. While both of these poems are praise poems, there are certain sections where it seems as though Bradstreet it trying to justify her admiration and convince the audience that Queen Elizabeth I is worth their attention and admiration. This need for justification is clearly rooted in the subject’s gender, “She hath wip’d…

His sister Anne also passed away at the age of eight. During childhood he attended school at Stratford Grammar School where he may have studied history, Latin also theatre and acting. It is still unknown if he recieved any higher education. We are not provided…

to let their feelings out in a manner they are used to before being in the secret Annex. Anne Frank wrote her diary to express her feelings that she could not express in the secret annexe because they had to stay quiet.I think it was very difficult to live under all those conditions. Living in a small space, worrying about if someone would find them and dealing with disagreements. I think that Anne…

For this essay I will be doing a biography over Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. She came from a big family. There were 9 children. There were five girls and four boys. Anna Blackwell, Marian Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Samuel Charles Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, John Howard Blackwell, and George Washington Blackwell where all the children of Samuel and Hannah Blackwell. When she was…

pieces) was published. In 1596, Shakespeare’s 11 year old son, Hamlet, passed away. This later inspired him to write the play, Hamlet, Which is still performed in theaters across the world. Shakespeare had 3 children with his wife, a farmers daughter, Anne Hathaway. The two were married in 1582. William Shakespeare made many contributions to society, mostly…

Excommunication of Anne Hutchinson In the summer of 1591, a threat to the Puritan faith would be born in the small town of Alford, Lincolnshire to nonconforming puritans, Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden. Anne Marbury, raised during the persecution by Queen Elizabeth and James I of the Catholics and separatists, was no stranger to religion. Anne’s childhood would be filled with daily prayers, Bible reading, and the education of maternal duties taught to her by her mother. Anne would live an…

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “As Weary Pilgrim” in The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to 1820 Volume A I get not only a since of exhaustion, but depression and a since of questioning or begging from God. The title “As Weary Pilgrim” means the poem is about someone that is tired so the since of exhaustion is validate and even more so coupled with the life as a puritan living in the new world. Bradstreet is begging God for death leading me to question her mental stability.…