Savage Indians: Mary Rowlandson's World View

Savage Indians: Mary Rowlandson’s World-View
Metacomet, also known Phillip, was a Wampanoag Indian who started a series of attacks on colonial settlements in 1675. Not much is known about Mary Rowlandson’s life except for the fact that she was a devout puritan as a minister’s wife. However, when the Wampanoag Indians captured her for eleven weeks, she made a record of her time with them. Her world-view is passive and she sees God everywhere in her life as the “Divine Providence”. As a result, she sees the Native Americans as the epitome of everything that is evil in the world because their actions conflict with her Puritan way of life and world view.
Rowlandson has to endure many hardships while she been taken prisoner by the Indians. She sees the Native Americans who have captured her as savages who care about no one but themselves. One the first night, she is forced to sleep on the floor and realizes that the Native Americans are nothing but heartless brutes. She s...