ENG250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Rowlandson, Captivity Narrative, Bloody Kisses
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Jeremiah: a work that foretells destruction because of the evil of a group. Biblical quotations, architype of wilderness full of savages. Depiction of social relationships between rowlandson and the other captures. Now of the writing, is 6 years after this happened. Wants to get this sentence into one idea. Can"t get the idea of the captives providing her with food, once she gets the captives out of her mind she tastes the food for what it really is. Slipping into their world, food is important in the narrative. Rowlandson might get these things wrong, puritan world-view. To what extent does she change throughout the narrative? o. She might become more sympathetic to her captures than what we realize at first. Disturbing to have a good christian woman criticizing savages, and has a raw moment of taking a piece of meat from a child. At this point she is assimilated into the culture. Bodily desire, gets folded back into spiritual autobiography.
