Bands of Indians would invade towns, killing, burning, and capturing the settlers. Mary Rowlandson was a puritan woman who was held captive by Indians. .
Rowlandson was held captive for close to three months (11 weeks, 5 days). The only thing that gave her hope was her faith in God. She blamed herself for her captivity, as if it were a means of punishment administered by God for an evil deed she did not recall committing; but acknowledged that God may have considered something a sin when she did not. .
She associated all of her misfortune, as well as all of her reliefs on her journey, to God. Seeing her captivity as a test of faith, she in no way considers the events or her captors as being a force independent from God. Numerous times throughout her story she quotes scripture. .
On her sixteenth move, Rowlandson found herself walking through ice cold water, tired, hungry, and in pain. While the Indians were mocking her slow, staggering steps, she quotes Isaiah (p.51) "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.".
Such biblical passages brought her comfort and hope on her miserable journey. It can be argued whether or not those were her actual thoughts at the moment, or if she just put the scripture in when writing her story to make it more acceptable. Either way, the very fact that she quoted scripture at all in her story reflects her sense of self in relation to society. Rowlandson saw herself as a child of God, saved or not. She applied her faith in all areas of her life, even those which would make a person today question theirs. Rowlandson remained true to her puritan form and generously expressed it in her writing. .
Age of Reason.
The Age of Reason was characterized by the ridding of ancient authority and conventions. From the 1750's to around 1810, Americans were reforming their old ways of thinking, primarily in regards to the control of religion over self.
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