Similarities Between Anne Bradstreet And The Burning Of Our House

Colonial America was when almost everyone was a Puritan and had to do everything by what they thought God's rules were. While Anne Bradstreet and Johnathan Edwards have quite similar perspectives on their religious faith and views, they have different ways of showing it given their societal influences and expectations. In Bradstreet's The Burning of Our House, she shows her beliefs of God, has a place for all who do right in the world. While in Edwards’ Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God, he believes that the people are the same wrath that God condemns in hell. Though they have similar beliefs in God with their own societal influential changes and expectations, they write about their beliefs quite differently and influence others in additional

Bradstreet is a vastly calm and at ease author about her beliefs; she believes that God is encouraging and that he loves all. In Bradstreet's The Burning of Our House, she believes that “The world no longer let me love,/ My hope and treasure lies above.” (Bradstreet 54). This part of her poem tells us that her treasure and love live above in her belief of heaven. Bradstreet strongly believes that God is always doing his job and working hard. “By Him who hath enough to do.”(Bradstreet 48). This quote explains that Bradstreet believes that her version of God has many things to do and may have had some problems to deal with that he could not help with her house fire. While they both have quite similar perspectives on God and their beliefs, they portray it differently. Yet in Edwards’ Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God, he has a more aggressive and powerful way with his words and influences people in brutal ways. “They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell.” (124). Clearly, he believes that God views the people with the same wrath and anger that he uses as torments of hell. Edwards uses strong language to make the people fearful of the God they loved.“God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on Earth;”(124). Edwards states that God is extremely angry with the

While in Bradstreet’s The Burning of Our House, her poems use peaceful words and emotions with her words but also express the pain of the loss she's experiencing. “Far it be that I should repine.”(Bradstreet 18). This poem tells us that her home is far beyond repair and that she has lost her house entirely and everything in it. “No pleasant tale shall e’er be told,”(Bradstreet 31). Here she is mourning the loss of her house and the fact that she will no longer make any more memories under that roof. Even though they are both Puritans, they write differently, given their societal influential changes and expectations. In Edwards’s Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God, he speaks immensely harshly and cruelly towards the people. “Keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”(126). Edwards was using his power over the people to place this fear into their heads that God would come after them. “There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell,”(127). Once again, Edwards was using his power to make the people he was speaking to feel belittled and afraid of him and their beloved God. Therefore, the contradictory styles of both Bradstreet and Edwards have been shown extremely strongly within their