It’s overwhelmed ( means overcome)
Answer:
people can lose the ability to think for themselves
Explanation:
Since the beginning of the story, Constantia and Josephine, two daughters of the late colonel, show the inability to decide and think in certain circumstances. They choose not to talk about potential problems and possible solutions, so they rather choose to fight and discuss. Even if they are the responsible ones for their family after their father died, they lost the ability to make decisions and thinking for themselves.
<u>Anne Bradstreet uses irony in her poems because she wants to disguise the beliefs that society is going to criticize. </u>Her favorite themes in her poetry are: devotion and worship to God, equality of women and the salvation of the soul in the hereafter. One subject that she almost never uses is the Catholic and ritual tradition.