Bradstreet's Rules In To My Dear And Loving Husband
The Women Rules
The role of women was an important factor in Bradstreet works because she did not agree with the stereotype that women were inferior to men in the Puritan society. In her poetry gender influences her work in two different types of ways. She takes on the role as a mother and wife. Bradstreet is fighting for women's rights because she doesn’t agree with women being inferior to men in the Puritan society. She writes during a time where women weren’t engaging in these activities."Now say, have women worth? or have they none? Or had they some, but with our queen is't gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus taxt us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong, Let such as say our Sex is void of Reason, Know tis a Slander now, …show more content…
They believed she should be raising her children to be followers of God. In To My Dear and Loving Husband she is lusting over her husband and she wants him back. She is going against her gender norms by expressing her strong love, they believe this would stray her further from God. “Any woman who sought to use her wit, charm, or intelligence in the community at a large found herself ridiculed, banished, or executed by the Colony’s powerful group of male leaders”. She was expected to only worship God and not her husband”.
In the Puritian, a relationship between a man and women was to be sacred and kept behind closed doors. A puritan couple wasn’t allowed to express their feelings or draw any attention to their relationship because they believed it was a sin. They believed that their relationship with God was the important and their relationship with their husband would further them from a relationship with God. Bradstreet gender influenced her feelings about her husband she hid from the public into her poetry. During this time Puritan women didn’t express themselves in this matter. Puritan women were to be seen and not heard in public and women works weren’t supposed to be shown to the public. Bradstreet says “ for my mean pen are too superior things” refers to her society believing that women are incapable about writing about cities and wars. The role of women in a puritan
The role of women was an important factor in Bradstreet works because she did not agree with the stereotype that women were inferior to men in the Puritan society. In her poetry gender influences her work in two different types of ways. She takes on the role as a mother and wife. Bradstreet is fighting for women's rights because she doesn’t agree with women being inferior to men in the Puritan society. She writes during a time where women weren’t engaging in these activities."Now say, have women worth? or have they none? Or had they some, but with our queen is't gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus taxt us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong, Let such as say our Sex is void of Reason, Know tis a Slander now, …show more content…
They believed she should be raising her children to be followers of God. In To My Dear and Loving Husband she is lusting over her husband and she wants him back. She is going against her gender norms by expressing her strong love, they believe this would stray her further from God. “Any woman who sought to use her wit, charm, or intelligence in the community at a large found herself ridiculed, banished, or executed by the Colony’s powerful group of male leaders”. She was expected to only worship God and not her husband”.
In the Puritian, a relationship between a man and women was to be sacred and kept behind closed doors. A puritan couple wasn’t allowed to express their feelings or draw any attention to their relationship because they believed it was a sin. They believed that their relationship with God was the important and their relationship with their husband would further them from a relationship with God. Bradstreet gender influenced her feelings about her husband she hid from the public into her poetry. During this time Puritan women didn’t express themselves in this matter. Puritan women were to be seen and not heard in public and women works weren’t supposed to be shown to the public. Bradstreet says “ for my mean pen are too superior things” refers to her society believing that women are incapable about writing about cities and wars. The role of women in a puritan