anne

Now, before I write my researched Anne Hutchinson speech to tell to a whole crowd of people huddled around her towering statue, I am going to muse a bit on Anne herself and maybe discover some tidbits of opinion in my head on what I think about her. She was, first and foremost, a rebel. A coldblooded, do whatever she feels like American rebel. I love this attribute from her because it really signifies American values, which are the ability to stand up for what is right. She is often called a feminist, among the first. While I do think that women were not treated as well as they should have been at the time, my view of colonial women's rights really is muddied by my inability to truly be there. I feel that she was not at all a feminist, because feminism really did not exist yet and she never made a fuss about being female, she again just stood up for what she knew was right. I also think that in her case John Winthrop was to blame in most of her conundrums. He saw her as a threat to his power and knew that to keep the job he always seemed to have a knack for losing, he would have to oust her from her rebellious decisions and banish her through his power in the church. These ideas really are merely my ramblings, and I can't wait to develop them more as I write my dialog to teach a crowd about Anne Hutchinson.