Captivity is the confinement of the mind. When you become captive, your mind and body becomes shut-off from what used to be and you begin to change your perception based on your surroundings. Being emotionally captive is when feelings and decisions are blurred, you can’t make rational decisions. In Louise Erdrich’s poem, the woman whom she refers to is unable to make a decision about whether or not she identifies with the Indians and their way of life. At one instance in the poem the woman said, “I hid my face in my dress, fearing He would burn us all, but that soon passed” (Erdrich). This shows that the woman’s mental block ruins her ability to understand the Indians actions, but later her view changes. She questions her disapproval and
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Showing that when one is truly inept to the outside world, their future actions can suddenly become estranged from what their normal actions would have been. In Mary Rowlandson’s story, she addresses a woman who is captured by “ferocious” Indians. During her captivity the woman begins to lose faith in what she believes in and whether or not she will live. Rowlandson wrote, “The woman, viz. goodwife Joslin, told me she should never see me again, and that she could find in her heart to run away” (Rowlandson). The woman hated it because she was unable to identify with her capturers. This experience threw her into a mental state where she couldn’t cope with reality and had to escape to survive. Her confinement was both mental and physical in the sense that she couldn’t think straight and wasn’t able to …show more content…
It can cause people to see only one ideal life and make unreasonable assumptions. Mary Rowlandson’s story talks about a woman, who is very religious, being taken captive by Indians. Throughout her captivity she begins to lose hope in God and starts thinking her cruel captivity is a sign that God is mad at her and so he is therefore mistreating her. She says, “I then remembered how careless I had been of Gods holy time… how evilly I had walked in Gods’ sight… and I see how righteous it was for God to cut the thread of my life and cast me out of his presence forever” (Rowlandson). She’s not in her right mind and is only able to perceive this new reality through her limited religious views. There could be many reasons why she was captured during this time in
Showing that when one is truly inept to the outside world, their future actions can suddenly become estranged from what their normal actions would have been. In Mary Rowlandson’s story, she addresses a woman who is captured by “ferocious” Indians. During her captivity the woman begins to lose faith in what she believes in and whether or not she will live. Rowlandson wrote, “The woman, viz. goodwife Joslin, told me she should never see me again, and that she could find in her heart to run away” (Rowlandson). The woman hated it because she was unable to identify with her capturers. This experience threw her into a mental state where she couldn’t cope with reality and had to escape to survive. Her confinement was both mental and physical in the sense that she couldn’t think straight and wasn’t able to …show more content…
It can cause people to see only one ideal life and make unreasonable assumptions. Mary Rowlandson’s story talks about a woman, who is very religious, being taken captive by Indians. Throughout her captivity she begins to lose hope in God and starts thinking her cruel captivity is a sign that God is mad at her and so he is therefore mistreating her. She says, “I then remembered how careless I had been of Gods holy time… how evilly I had walked in Gods’ sight… and I see how righteous it was for God to cut the thread of my life and cast me out of his presence forever” (Rowlandson). She’s not in her right mind and is only able to perceive this new reality through her limited religious views. There could be many reasons why she was captured during this time in