Anne Hutchinson challenged the traditional subordinate role of women in Puritan society by expressing her own religious convictions. The fact is that she probably would not have been convicted or treated with such condescension by the court if she had been a male.

Analysis: Anne Hutchinson's persecution was due to the fact that she was a female who was assertive in a time when women were considered inferior and subordinate to men. Hutchinson believed that every person could ask and receive an answer from God if he or she would listen. For this reason she was tried for heresy.

When she came to Massachusetts Bay, Hutchinson probably had high expectations for finally having the freedom to express her beliefs away from the confines of the established church in England . However, there was no religious freedom in the Massachusetts Bay Colony except to agree with the doctrines set forth by the Puritan church there. Puritanism in the colonies had lost its original purpose, which was to purify and make h

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