Olaudah Equianao Analysis

A Mercy, Thrall, and An Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equianao are all works that can be both compared and contrasted effortlessly. The works all concern the individual characters means of survival throughout their many hardships that occur on the journey that they all take. Through a discovery of culture, knowledge, religion, skills and self-discovery the characters each finds a means to survive their navigating through the middle passage or in the case of the book of poems by Natasha Trethewey self-acceptance to survive in their individual journeys. In the terms of each of the novels the term “othered” bodies are a means of separating a specific or generalized group of individuals. Connecting the three texts A Mercy, Thrall, and An Interesting Narrative of the life …show more content…
In the case of Florens, the young servant of the Vaark household she allows herself to find comfort in captivity and in a sense deluded herself into believing that what she was in was a family. In all of the works the protagonist is dreaming of or between slavery and freedom. In the novel A Mercy the slavery isn’t necessarily based on race while in contrast the novel An Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equianao is based solely upon it. In Equiano’s case his journey consists of actual travel throughout the middle passage from Africa, to America and the West Indies, losing his sister even though he is a good person and attest to this with the letters in the beginning of the work. In conclusion A Mercy, Thrall, and An Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equianao relate and connect as each of the protagonist find themselves and a means to survive through connections, religion, purpose, and knowledge. Navigating through the journeys in which each of the characters must they experience cruel enslavement being that both physically and emotionally and are subjected to accept the cards in which they’ve been dealt. Being