A Monstrous Birth

Anne hutchinson had a child that was still born, and this is how they end up describing it. If aunt hutchinson's not a good puritan, then she can't do everything puritan women are expected to do. So her religious dissent is also a physical deviance that happens to her. She can't fulfil womanhood the way she's expected. Mary dyer is the same thing also, a dissenter also has a monstrous birth. While they get exaggerated, there is likely some truth to these histories of monstrous births. And i they have a child that does not look like what they expect or believe a child should look like. Things get dramatize,