Mary Rowlandson Beliefs

Many puritans believed that the new world was a "New Eden" of sorts, a paradise given to them by God. Others believed that although it was a God given land, it came with many obstacles and dangers. The puritans believed this land was good because of writers and poets wrote stories of this paradise, such as Andrew Marvell's Bermudas. A memorable quote from the aforementioned poem is, "He gave us this eternal spring, / Which here enamels everything.” It describes the Island of Bermuda as always in spring and how the plants in bloom overflow the island (Marvell 5). As Marvell also stated, "But apples plants of such a price, / No tree could ever bear them twice," it is shown that the fruit on the island is so rich and gigantic that it breaks the tree that it grow on. …show more content…
In William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, he describes the people's lack of resources and their fear of the unknown forest. He also mentions how the new world could be delineated as a horrible wilderness. Mary Rowlandson describes her frightful experience with the natives in The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. She tells of how most of her family was killed in a single day by the natives and how she was captured and tortured by them. She quotes on the aftermath of the attack, "Now we must go with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding, and our hearts no less than our bodies" (56 Rowlandson). This struck fear into the hearts of her