A Narrative Of The Captivity Mary Rowlandson Analysis

Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ornately illustrates the reason of her captivity with high adventure tragedy, removes and her connection with god. Rowlandson begins her narrative by describing the abduction and attack by the savage Indians. Firstly, Puritan/ Pilgrim viewed Indians as a savages. In addition, Puritan/ Pilgrims were utterly disgusted by the Indian’s uncouth and barbarous behavior. Rowlandson mentions them as “murderous wretches”. As she observes, “There were five persons taken in one house; the father, and the mother and a sucking child, they knocked on the head …. He begged of them his life, promising them money but they would not hearken to him but knocked him in head, and …show more content…
Which affirms many Puritan/ Pilgrim held as a captive, who were spending time getting abused on daily basis, no warm shelter and food to eat is absolutely unfortunate, but their determination and faith with god assisted them on their captive journey. Puritan/ Pilgrims were devotee of Christ and a humane Christians, yet in god’s eye one needed to demonstrate him/ herself indicating trust and strength of faith toward god when tested. During Rowlandson captivity, she went thru a lot and at times telling herself, “All was gone, my husband gone, my children gone, my relations and friends gone…. Bespeaking compassion, and I had no refreshing for it, nor suitable things to revive it” (Rowlandson 271). Rowlandson was so traumatized by her loss and the events she witnessed that she would wonder, “all was gone (except my life), and I knew not but the next moment that might go too). Rowlandson was a genuine Christian who endured a ton and encountered some tragic occasions throughout her life, yet the quality of faith she appeared and conveyed toward god during her ups and down on her captivity ended up being