How Does Mary Rowlandson's View Of Nature
Nature: How does Rowlandson describe nature in her narrative and what do her word choices or images of nature signify or imply about a Puritan view of nature? What does nature represent?
Mary Rowlandson often calls nature a desolate place. I saw the word desolate repeated a lot in reference primarily to the wilderness. There is a point in time where she comes in contact with an English Farm which brought her a lot of comfort but she didn’t go into much detail about that besides saying that she want to “[Lie] there and die” (266). Maybe I didn’t notice how she describes nature because of how interested I was in how afflicted she was but thinking in a “Puritan” frame of mind I would expect for nature to be talked about richly because it was made
Mary Rowlandson often calls nature a desolate place. I saw the word desolate repeated a lot in reference primarily to the wilderness. There is a point in time where she comes in contact with an English Farm which brought her a lot of comfort but she didn’t go into much detail about that besides saying that she want to “[Lie] there and die” (266). Maybe I didn’t notice how she describes nature because of how interested I was in how afflicted she was but thinking in a “Puritan” frame of mind I would expect for nature to be talked about richly because it was made