Whittier saw her as having been driven to insanity in the moment of her attack, and Hawthorne reacted even more strongly, wishing the "bloody old hag had been drowned." Only a hag could have acted in this way, not a true woman. She was enthusiastically welcomed when she returned from captivity with ten scalps of the Indian family she killed in their beds. This section analyses Hannah Dustin's experience in detail. By the 18th century writers viewed these women and their behavior as unnatural. Laurel Ulrich demonstrates how the society accepted these normally unacceptable behaviors when they could see the woman taking the male role in the place of their husband, and them stepping back into a normal feminine role after. These qualities were sometimes necessary for survival in the frontier of 17th century New England. And Jael, who welcomed her enemy, fed him, lulled him to sleep, and then killed him by driving a tent peg into his head, gives a focus to a discussion of female assertiveness and violence. Eve provides a focal point of a discussion of both sexual misbehavior, married sexuality, and childbirth.
Bathsheba, whom the Puritans saw as the virtuous woman of proverbs, exemplified the good wife. It shows how the society interpreted women and their roles using three prototypical Biblical women models. Title: Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN: 9780679732570 Publisher. It provides a fascinating insight into the lives of women in early New England. This work has an academic tone, but is better written than most books written by college professors.
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