Puritanism
Puritanism is extreme in the way that it gave people a meaning to their life. The precariousness of this is constantly questioned by Bradstreet. Rather than be enfolded into Catholicism, wherein she would have simply been told what to do, and what was right or wrong, she was forced to ask these questions and it became what appeared to be a severe burden on her. While this commitment was likely intolerable at time, it is just as likely that the commitment was viewed as absolute, and was the primary motivation for many of her actions. For example, her family ...