Most people are taught that the natives were treated friendly when the Europeans came to explore, this is not the case. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are novels of settlers and native relations. In both John Smith and William Bradford's texts, the men show themselves as heroes and the natives as lesser by denigrating their language, tricking them with contracts, and, having negative expectations.
The Pilgrims, like the settlers at Jamestown, first see themselves as better by degenerating the language of the Native Americans. The settlers go through a long voyage at sea with many problems. They land on an unknown land. Captain Smith and his men are attacked, and Smith is captured by the natives. “Six or Seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner” (Virginia 74). The definition of barbaric is to be primitive and unsophisticated, meaning that the natives don’t belong in their time, as well as, they are not a proper complex society in the eyes of the settlers. Also, the puritans take a bad view on the language of the natives. Bradford implied that the ability of the Native Americans to learn a new language was lacking. At this point in the novel, they have gone through a long voyage through treacherous …show more content…
The pilgrims have negative wording that they used to describe the natives. They show themselves as betters is by tricking the natives with unjust contracts. The Pilgrims first show themselves as better by degenerating the language of the natives. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are the two texts examined in the essay. It turns out that what might have been thought about the relations between settlers and natives might be completely
The Pilgrims, like the settlers at Jamestown, first see themselves as better by degenerating the language of the Native Americans. The settlers go through a long voyage at sea with many problems. They land on an unknown land. Captain Smith and his men are attacked, and Smith is captured by the natives. “Six or Seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner” (Virginia 74). The definition of barbaric is to be primitive and unsophisticated, meaning that the natives don’t belong in their time, as well as, they are not a proper complex society in the eyes of the settlers. Also, the puritans take a bad view on the language of the natives. Bradford implied that the ability of the Native Americans to learn a new language was lacking. At this point in the novel, they have gone through a long voyage through treacherous …show more content…
The pilgrims have negative wording that they used to describe the natives. They show themselves as betters is by tricking the natives with unjust contracts. The Pilgrims first show themselves as better by degenerating the language of the natives. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are the two texts examined in the essay. It turns out that what might have been thought about the relations between settlers and natives might be completely