Compare And Contrast William Bradford And John Smith

While both William Bradford and John Smith were strong figures in leadership and influential authors during the Puritan era, their styles of writing differ significantly. From a critical outlook, Smith used a persuasive style of writing while Bradford chose to adopt an informative style of writing, despite the fact that they wrote about the same pre-colonial land.

Smith used persuasive writing his work in the bid to appeal to the audience or readers that people ought to awaken, realize the new world, and begin a new life. In his persuasive pamphlet, Smith made a statement that proved that he wrote to convince people to migrate alongside him. Specifically, he stated that he had no intention of persuading children from their parents, servants from their masters, nor men from their wives. The statement reveals that he only intended to persuade those with free will to come to America (New World) to have a background and trade. By commenting repetitively about
He used his writings to make the audience or readers informed about the hardships and struggles he encountered while in the New World. Bradford adopted an editorial approach in his work “The History of Plymouth Plantation” to provide event interpretations that educated or informed people that the New World was not “Heaven on Earth.” For instance, he informed the readers that one of the reasons for leaving England was that, as time went by, people continued to die because of the barbarous persecutions, malnourishment, lack of life necessities, and bloody and cruel torments. He also used his writings to articulate and let people know about his religious stance and the corruption that had crept into the Church of England. In other words, Bradford’s writings included both the teachings about what people did not know and additional, informative content about his religious orientations and