Anne Hutchinson

Prynne is comparable to that of Anne Hutchinson in terms of setting, characteristics, and Ideals. Starting with the setting, Anne Hutchinson settled in the Boston Massachusetts bay colony following guidance of a John Cotter a puritan preacher and leader. The Scarlet letter mentions in chapter 1 “The forefathers of Boston had built the first prison house.”(P.33) This quote connects the setting of the scarlet letter in accordance to the area of which Anne Hutchinson once resided in. Along…

The Significant Difference of Anne Bradstreet Throughout my reading of “Exploration and Colonization”, I had a mild feeling of discomfort. The main reason being my prior knowledge and feelings about the unjust treatment of Native Americans during this time period. The way Indians were described as savages and in other defamatory ways did not settle well with me. The authors in this section were so biased towards Native Americans and so profoundly sure of their own righteousness, it made…

In 1772, Franklin was given a series of correspondences between Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver, (both of whom were colonial officers) and Thomas Whitley, a British undersecretary. In these letters, Hutchinson and Oliver suggested “ ‘an abridgement of what are called English liberties’ were needed in America”. Franklin believed he could send out these letters to Massachusetts as evidence…

still used the “rule of thumb” for discipling their wife physically. However, Nash explained that women pushed against this hierarchical structure. For example, Mercy Otis Warren constructed two plays mocking Loyalists, including Governor Thomas Hutchinson, an unprecedented venture into politics for a female. Eventually, they would…

Anne Bradstreet was born in the early 1600s and grew up in an educated and privileged household. She was the most prominent English female poet in North America, and the first to be published in England (Kennedy and Gioia, 2013). She was also a devout Puritan and it was one of her goals to show that she could fulfill what she considered a woman’s virtue, but still be valued as an intellect and a poet. Being a devout Puritan meant that marriage played a large role in the poet’s life. The…

family, and the other occupants of the annex are discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The general horror of war, coupled with the specific horrors that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews, is the major theme of the diary. Anne Frank, the young teenage girl who writes the diary, experiences the pain of war first-hand. In order to try and escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van Daans go into hiding in Amsterdam, Holland. In spite of…

stories, one being about the Holocaust. She was shocked to find out that the students had never heard about the Holocaust. After learning about the students’ knowledge about the Holocaust, she came up with the idea to introduce them to the book of Anne Frank. The school had the books, but unfortunately her students being from low poverty weren’t allowed to use the books, because the school administrators felt that the books weren’t at the reading level of the students and would they would be…

The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe The French Queen 's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe written by Erin A. Sadlack “attempts to broaden the understanding of women’s paths to power in the sixteenth century.” Sadlack’s a credibility stems from her PhD in Medieval and British Literature. She is a professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses in Medieval and…

The Phantom of Love Love, an endless phenomenon that lasts even after death, entwines itself into a being at the first sign of life. Whitman and Dickinson, two famous poets of the 19th century, have similar views on the love of a child to its mother, the love of a friend, and the love of a spouse always being omnipresent and blossoming within oneself. These famous poets portray the common ideal of omnipresent love through the works labeled as “Love is anterior to life” and “As if a Phantom…

In February of 1540, it was clear that the alliance between Germany and England would not last. Henry and Anne of Cleves simply did not get along. In July of the same year of their marriage, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment (their marriage had not been consummated) and she quickly agreed. This is not surprising given the reputation that Henry had earned for himself already at the time. Raising up a huge fuss over a marriage that had not even lasted a year would not have been…